Support for Broadcom 5906M fast ethernet chip

Sepherosa Ziehau sepherosa at gmail.com
Sun Dec 2 00:10:58 PST 2007


On Dec 2, 2007 4:06 PM, Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Dec 1, 2007 4:06 PM, Petr Janda <elekktretterr at exemail.com.au> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> > I just bought a new laptop that has atheros wireless (works) and broadcom
> > 5906M Fast Ethernet chip in it (suppose gigabit ethernet), and it doesn't get
> > detected. Is it hard to add support for this chip? Im hoping its just a
> > matter of adding a pci id.
>
> Please test following patch:
> http://leaf.dragonflybsd.org/~sephe/bcm5906.diff

BTW, make sure that you get the latest source with the bge_stop() fix.

Best Regards,
sephe

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