Robert Elz wrote:
> Some students of mine have an HP Compaq nx5000 laptop.   It has a
> Broadcom ethernet in it, that NetBSD seems to not currently support.
> It's PCI product is is 0x170C (NetBSD knows 170d and 170e ...)
> 
> Is it likely that simply adding this extra code to the pcidevs file,
> and to if_bge.c is going to have it work (ie: is it that similar,
> and just missing because no-one has seen it before) or is this something
> different enough that it isn't likely to work soon at all?

See 
http://groups.google.de/groups?selm=1093368204.00118046.1093355402%4010.7.7.3&output=gplain

This device seems to be fast ethernet (under FreeBSD this is bfe). So 
the correct NetBSD driver for this would be bce, not bge.

Regards

Felix