driver for broadcom 57711E

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 11:21:21AM -0700, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 26, 2010 at 07:30:19PM +0200, Christoph Weber-Fahr wrote:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > On 07.10.2010 09:07, Дмитрий Александров wrote:
> > >  Hi! I really need broadcom 57711E driver for my FreeBSD 8.0 i386.
> > > Does anybody have this driver already?
> > > 
> > > P.S. Also wanted David Christensen who had previously tried to write a driver.
> > 
> > LOL. Welcome to the club :-)
> > 
> > ( Though I'm afraid David, or Broadcomm, respectively, are incommunicado
> > on this particular issue. )
> > 
> > Let us know if you hear something different.
> > 
> 
> Actually David is very responsive but I think he is somewhat busy
> for other work. For example, I had been working with David to
> support next generation Broadcom controller that would be widely
> available in next year.
> Personally I haven't have chance to try bnx(4) which was written
> by David to support BCM57710/57711/57711E controllers so I don't
> know how well it works. As David said long time ago, one of issue
> was testing wide variety of PHYs used in controller such that it
> made hard to release the driver.
> David, would you clarify current status of bnx(4)?

Actually the driver name was bxe(4).