Re: Broadcom 440x Ethernet Drivers

["Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>]

On Thursday,  2 October 2003 at 12:36:45 +0000, Alexander Farber wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 11:01:15AM +0200, Henning Brauer wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 02, 2003 at 01:41:53PM +0930, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
>>> On Thursday,  2 October 2003 at 12:04:01 +0800, Teh Kok How wrote:
>>>> 	Any idea how much does this broadcom 440x cost? I am
>>>> interested to get one and port the driver over from FreeBSD...:->
>>>
>>> I don't know if they're sold individually, but if they are, I'm sure
>>> they'll be very cheap.  All the cases I've heard of have been included
>>> on motherboards, and I think they were all laptops.  I have one on my
>>> Dell Inspiron 5100.  Michael Cullen seems to have something similar.
>>
>> they are on some Asus mainboards. forgot which.
>
> For example on my A7V8X (the SPDIF-version, 100 Mbit broadcom):
> http://home.t-online.de/home/Alexander.Farber/OpenBSD/dmesg.newhope
> "Broadcom BCM4401" rev 0x01 at pci0 dev 9 function 0 not configured
>
> and when I dual boot FreeBSD 4-stable I get:
> http://home.t-online.de/home/Alexander.Farber/FreeBSD/dmesg.newhope
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x14e4, dev=0x4401) at 9.0 irq 10
>
> on the FreeBSD 5.1 I had:
> http://home.t-online.de/home/Alexander.Farber/FreeBSD/dmesg.newhope5
> pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)
>
> I haven't tried the driver from http://people.freebsd.org/~dmlb/ yet

FWIW, this is not the driver that made it into the FreeBSD source
tree.  But it worked well for me, as does the new one.

Greg
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