Ticket #1590 (new enhancement)

Opened 10 months ago

Last modified 10 months ago

Updated Broadcom Tigon3 ethernet driver

Reported by: pieterpan Owned by: axeld
Priority: normal Milestone: R1
Component: Drivers/Network Version: R1 development
Cc: Blocked By:
Platform: All Blocking:

Description

It would be nice if Haiku supported the latest broadcom gigabit ethernet chips. Currently Nathan's driver is in SVN, but it does not support new chips like the one in my laptop (BCM 5787M) Unfortunately the code his driver is based on was not updated much, and linux switched to a new codebase. So I see 2 options:

Port the linux driver or use the FreeBSD network driver compatibility layer to use the FreeBSD driver. Most likely the last option would be easiest.

Change History

Changed 10 months ago by pieterpan

  • component changed from - General to Drivers/Network

Changed 10 months ago by axeld

The old FreeBSD 6.2 driver does not support your device, the new 7.0 driver does, though. I'll see if the new driver will work with our compatibility layer as well.

Changed 10 months ago by pieterpan

Thanks, just let me know when I can help test it, if it works with the compat layer.

Changed 10 months ago by pieterpan

Well I tried to make this driver compile with the compat framework (based on the rtl8139), but I'm getting errors left and right, trying to include files from the freebsd cvs. This will take forever for me to fix without the appropriate knowledge. I hope you can get it to work...

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