Re: Broadcom Ethernet Adapter Support

From: Ted Unangst (tedu_at_stanford.edu)
Date: 10/25/03 

Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2003 18:59:26 -0700

On Sat, 25 Oct 2003, Florian Weingarten wrote:

> It's an Broadcom BCM440. It's the one which comes with the ASUS P4-PE Board.
> There is a Linux Module for this card and it works fine with Linux on my PC.

there is not yet support for it. freebsd and netbsd drivers exist, but
they haven't been ported yet. (if your next question is "how hard is it
to port a driver?", the answer is "not that hard, but probably more work
than you're up to." :)) 

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