Subject: re: Broadcom BCM4401 driver written
To: Cliff Wright <cliff@vixen.snipe444.org>
From: matthew green <mrg@eterna.com.au>
List: tech-kern
Date: 09/27/2003 13:51:35
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.
Cliff Wright
i can confirm this driver works for me under netbsd-current with
one change (as you noted would be, and provided code for!)
as soon as we clear up license/copyright foo i will commit this
to -current and request a 1.6 pullup.
thanks again!
.mrg.