Hello all,
does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards? Are
they somehow compatible to whatever?
Regards,
Stephan
On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 14:10, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards? Are
> they somehow compatible to whatever?
There is a broadcom b44 driver in -ac, but it needs a lot more cleaning
up or rewriting before it goes anywhere further
On 23 Jun 2003 15:04:29 +0100
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 14:10, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards? Are
> > they somehow compatible to whatever?
>
> There is a broadcom b44 driver in -ac, but it needs a lot more cleaning
> up or rewriting before it goes anywhere further
Thanks for your hint, I will try. If you need test input, feel free to ask. The
device seems widespread for built-in network cards, seems like Acer uses it
quite seriously in the Travelmate series, but googling around shows all kinds
of boards using it.
Regards,
Stephan
Asus supply a Linux driver as part of their
motherboards supporting the chip, but it can also be
downloaded from
ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/lan/broadcom/4401
Mitch
-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Broadcom bcm 4401
From: Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw () ithnet ! com>
Date: 2003-06-23 13:10:40
Hello all,
does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards?
Are
they somehow compatible to whatever?
Regards,
Stephan
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 14:10, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
>
>>Hello all,
>>
>>does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards? Are
>>they somehow compatible to whatever?
>
>
> There is a broadcom b44 driver in -ac, but it needs a lot more cleaning
> up or rewriting before it goes anywhere further
What cleaning needs to be done?
AFAIK, I need only to fix a phy-related bug, and b44 will be working
nicely. (I have test h/w, too)
Jeff
On Maw, 2003-06-24 at 15:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
> What cleaning needs to be done?
>
> AFAIK, I need only to fix a phy-related bug, and b44 will be working
> nicely. (I have test h/w, too)
The driver I have is very windowsish, I assumne the one you have is not ?
Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-06-24 at 15:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>>What cleaning needs to be done?
>>
>>AFAIK, I need only to fix a phy-related bug, and b44 will be working
>>nicely. (I have test h/w, too)
>
>
> The driver I have is very windowsish, I assumne the one you have is not ?
Look at drivers/net/b44.c in 2.5 :)
It will appear in 2.4 as soon as it works for me.
Jeff
On 24 Jun 2003 16:40:49 +0100
Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-06-24 at 15:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> >
> > What cleaning needs to be done?
> >
> > AFAIK, I need only to fix a phy-related bug, and b44 will be working
> > nicely. (I have test h/w, too)
>
> The driver I have is very windowsish, I assumne the one you have is not ?
I have tested the one from -ac2 now (2.0.0 from 25.03.03) and it works quite ok
on my laptop. I would be pleased to see it in 2.4.22 together with the acpi
stuff, sounds like a nice release for laptops ;-)
I found out SuSE uses a pretty old dated one (I guess it was 1.3.0 from
somewhen mid last year).
Regards,
Stephan
On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:10:40PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards? Are
> they somehow compatible to whatever?
>
> Regards,
> Stephan
There are some third-party GPL'd ones on ASUS's site:
ftp.asus.com.tw:/pub/ASUS/lan/broadcom/4401/
Minor changes were required to make them work with 2.5
last I tried.
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