device bcm not in GENERIC

Duncan Barclay dmlb at dmlb.org
Mon Sep 29 01:57:56 PDT 2003


Yes, the bcm driver is not for -stable. This is a FAQ.

Please search the mail archives for pointers to the bfe driver and patches
to it for -stable.

bcm is not being developed - it merged with the bfe driver before the bfe
driver was commited.

Also, these exist for bcm.
http://www.mavetju.org/~edwin/bcm-4.8too.tar.gz.


----- Original Message -----
From: "Aeefyu" <afu-subscribed-list at aeefyu.net>
To: <freebsd-stable at freebsd.org>
Sent: Monday, September 29, 2003 8:37 AM
Subject: device bcm not in GENERIC


> Hi all
>
> Been following the development of this driver (Broadcom 4401X);
> Kernel Compile failed because bcm is not listed in GENERIC, and a manual
> make in sys/modules/bcm fails with:
>
> [root at roxanne: bcm] # make
> Warning: Object directory not changed from original
/usr/src/sys/modules/bcm
> make: don't know how to make miidevs.h. Stop
>
> [root at roxanne: bcm] # uname -a
> FreeBSD roxanne.webcraft99.net 4.9-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 4.9-PRERELEASE #1:
> Mon Sep 29 14:26:21 MYT 2003
> aeefyu at roxanne.webcraft99.net:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/ROXANNE  i386
>
> Or am i missing something?
>
> Cheers
>
> --
> Feisal
> Webcraft Solutions - http://www.webcraftsolutions.com
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