Broadcom 5906 Ethernet in FreeBSD

[Thomas Nyström]

Thomas Nyström wrote:
> Hello!
> 
> I have just got a laptop with the Broadcom 5906M chip for the ethernet
> and realized that it doesn't seems to be supported by FreeBSD.
> 
> My question is: Is anyone working on this or should I try myself?
> I can see that there have recently been discussions about this for
> OpenBSD, NetBSD and DragonflyBSD but nothing for FreeBSD....
> 
> /Thomas
> 

For the archive: A patch has been submitted in PR:
kern/118975: [bge] [patch] Broadcom 5906 not handled by FreeBSD

/Thomas

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