Subject: Re: Broadcom BCM4401 driver written
To: Cliff Wright <cliff@vixen.snipe444.org>
From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@NetBSD.org>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/27/2003 10:09:31
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On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 14:33:44 -0700, Cliff Wright wrote:
> I have written a NetBSD driver for the Broadcom BCM4401 pci
> ethernet 10/100 chip used by my Dell Inpiron 8500 laptop.
> The information to write this was obtained from the Linux driver,
> which of course is GPL'd. I will e-mail the author at Broadcom, and see
> if a BSD license is possible for this NetBSD version.
> The driver is fully functional, however does not have vlan, or
> flow control support. I also took the short cut of receiveing all
> multicast. It may not be big-endian machine clean, as I have only
> tested it on my laptop. I used the generic phy driver. I thought
> I would wait to see what response I get from Broadcom before going
> any further, however wanted to mention this in case their is interest.

Have you taken a look at the two competing FreeBSD drivers? =20

Greg
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