In article <29042.1107172132@munnari.oz.au>,
	Robert Elz <kre@munnari.OZ.AU> writes:
> 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?

Hard to say. Neither the Broadcom-supplied Linux driver, nor FreeBSD 5.3,
lists that device ID.  It's probably a custom chip made specially for HP.
Chances are, it would work, as newer chips in a line generally have fewer
bugs that need to be worked around in the driver, rather than more, but
there's only one way to find out.


Frederick