Question regarding Broadcom BCM5906M support under FreeBSD7

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On 4/21/08, Gonzalo Nemmi <gnemmi at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> Probably the most accurate and downright _to_the_point_ answer that I've
> ever
> received.
>
> Thanks a _lot_ Mr Schmehl
> Your kind answer has been really hepfull and highly appreciated =)
>
> Blessings
>
> ---
>
> Gonzalo Nemmi
>
>
> On Monday 21 April 2008 13:32:52 Paul Schmehl wrote:
> > Looking at the header file in HEAD, the highest number card supported is
> > the 5787.  It doesn't look like there's support for that card yet.
> >
> > <
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/bge/if_bgereg.h?rev=1.73
> >.2.1;content-type=text%2Fplain>
> >
> > Paul Schmehl (pauls at utdallas.edu)
> > Senior Information Security Analyst
> > The University of Texas at Dallas
> > http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/


Actually bge(4) can support the BCM5906M chipset. There is an un-official
patch for both 6.3 et 7.0 here:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=118975
http://ture.saeab.se/bcm5906/

I have this card and thanks to this fix it works flawlessly under
7.0-RELEASE.