Re: BCM4401 Support for FreeBSD

From: Joe Marcus Clarke (marcus_at_marcuscom.com)
Date: 07/28/03

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    To: Aeefyu <afu-subscribed-list@aeefyu.net>
Date: 28 Jul 2003 14:08:14 -0400

    On Mon, 2003-07-28 at 12:18, Aeefyu wrote:
    > With reference to:
    > http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=freebsd-hackers&m=105593188923273&w=2
    >
    > i.e. Broadcom 440x NIC support for FreeBSD 4.x and 5.x (as found on
    > latest Dell's Notebooks - mine is a 8500)
    >
    > Would anyone be so kind to enlighten me on the the current status?
    > Last I heard of developments being made was end of June.
    >
    > Anyone please?
    >
    > I am willing to be a tester, if one is required.

    This was forwarded to me from Greg Lehey. The dcm driver works okay for
    me, but I had to hack it for some new bus dma changes. I have noticed a
    few issues of slowness with it when using it in a more "normal" sense
    (i.e. using it to read mail, ssh to machines, etc.).

    >> Duncan Barclay has a beta driver for the Broadcomm card. See
    >>
    http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-mobile/2003-July/001109.html
    >> for more details. Also, I've been given a pointer to a Linux page,
    >> http://cabibbo.physics.wm.edu/~bryan/computer/inspiron5100.html,
    which
    >> I haven't read yet.

    Joe

    >
    > Cheers 

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