[hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver

[Duncan Barclay]

On 26-Aug-2003 dcswest at gmx.net wrote:
> Greetings;
> 
> Wondering whatever further may have come of this discussion regarding
> FreeBSD support of the built-in ethernet for the Dell Inspiron 8500 Notebook.
> Running a dual-boot system with MS Windows XP and FreeBSD 4.8 Release since
> 5.1
> wouldn't seem to install, but not even sure how to make use of drivers beyond
> including their device code in the kernel configuration file, which may just
> be an issue with this current release.

I fixed the RX problem yesterday. Take a look at
http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/
and grab the lastest bcm_...tar.gz file. Untar this into /sys
then
cd /sys/modules/bcm
make
make install
kldload if_bcm

This driver is for -current only.

Once I've done a bit more work on it and committed it, I'll back port to
-stable.

Duncan
 
> Other than that, may also ask if anyone's just managed to get the Motorola
> SB4200 Cable Modem to work through the USB port instead.
> 
> Thank you,
> 
> 
> [freebsd.hackers]
> 
> Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: BCM4401 ethernet driver
> From: none at superig.com.br (Tony Meman)
> Newsgroups: freebsd.hackers
> Organization: TAC News Gateway
> Date: Jun 18 2003 02:52:22
> References: 1
> 
> David Gilbert wrote:
>> Duncan> I am in the process of rewriting this driver for FreeBSD. It
>> Duncan> can transmit, but RX is not yet going properly. As this is
>> Duncan> evening work, it's likely to take at elast another week.
>> 
>> 
>>>>This is the onboard ethernet on my dell inspiron 8500 laptop and I
>> 
>> I'm pretty sure this is the chipset on my Dell D800 laptop.  I would
>> be interested in testing the drivers, too.  I'm running 5.1-RELEASE.
>> 
>> Dave.
> 
> This ethernet is onboard on some Asus A7V8X mother boards (VIA KT400
> chipset). I'm running the linux/windows drivers from Broadcom site
> without problems.
> 
> If you need more ppl testing the driver I'd be glad to help. I'm running
> 4.8-STABLE but could upgrade to 5.1-RELEASE if required.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> --
> Tony Meman
> 
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