Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

[Kenneth D. Merry]

On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 16:59:56 +0300, Boris Georgiev wrote:
> Hello All, 
> 
> I've got a Compaq Evo N620c notebook, which comes with a built-in lan network card - Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M. I researched on the hardware support for this NIC in FreeBSD and noticed that there is no hardware support for it either in the STABLE, or in the CURRENT distribution. I found that there is Linux driver for this NIC, which can be downloaded from the 3Com web site on the following address:
> 
> http://support.3com.com/infodeli/tools/nic/linux/bcm5700-5.0.5.tar.gz
> 
> The driver comes as a RedHat binary, Linux kernel patch and standalone source. 
> Can you, please update me if there is an updated if_bge driver, which includes hardware support for this new chip or if someone is porting this driver for FreeBSD and there is a beta version, I can cooperate with testing it. 
> 

Please wrap your lines at something less than 80 columns.

Bill Paul just posted a message to -current, -net and -mobile about some
patches to the bge(4) driver to hopefully support that chip:

http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Broadcom/5705

Ken
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Kenneth Merry
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