The bce(4) driver has been re-enabled recently after being overhauled to deal with hardware limitations.
Wait for 5.0 or try a snapshot. On Sun, Oct 02, 2011 at 03:58:07PM +1100, Gavin Norman wrote: > I recently installed 4.9 on a Dell Inspiron 1720 laptop, which has the > Broadcom 440x NIC on board. > > Has anyone had luck getting the NIC working? It wasn't detected during the > setup.
