Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support

[Boris Georgiev]

Kenneth,

As I already posted William, I have bad news - it doesn't work for me. I
rebuilt kernel yesterday with
the patched sources and the only thing that happened is that the kernel
recognised the LAN card and
after that it tried to upload the firmware on the NIC chip, but
unsuccessfully. It gave me out
an timeout message and didn't load the driver at all. I am sorry that at
this time I cannot send
the exact message from the kernel, but the notbook is at my office, so I
will post it
tomorrow if the output will help for finding out what the problem is.
Best regards,

Boris Georgiev

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Kenneth D. Merry" <ken at kdm.org>
To: "Boris Georgiev" <maav at bastun.net>
Cc: <freebsd-net at freebsd.org>; <freebsd-hackers at freebsd.org>;
<wpaul at windriver.com>
Sent: Sunday, July 13, 2003 11:29 PM
Subject: Re: Broadcom NetXtreme BCM5705M support


> 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
> -- 
> Kenneth Merry
> ken at kdm.org
>
>