Opened 17 years ago

Closed 16 years ago

#2047 closed enhancement (fixed)

bfe (broadcom bcm44x) driver

Reported by: andybe Owned by: axeld
Priority: normal Milestone: R1
Component: Drivers/Network Version: R1/pre-alpha1
Keywords: Cc:
Blocked By: Blocking:
Platform: All

Description

this is a ported driver, for bcm44x. - it compiles, but not works for my laptop. it could be that it works for normal networkcards. looks for an better developer as me. I only compare.... This driver doesn't not lock up my machine as the linux ported driver in the sourcetree..

Open to everyone can tested, by every one.

Thanks at all..

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bfe.tar.gz (41.0 KB ) - added by andybe 17 years ago.

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Change History (13)

by andybe, 17 years ago

Attachment: bfe.tar.gz added

comment:1 by euan, 17 years ago

What hardware spec is your laptop?

I can test this driver on my laptop also, after it's AHCI issues are resolved.

comment:2 by andybe, 17 years ago

I got a mobility version here on my laptop.

I got changed here. still working on it, because of problems with the hardware.

comment:3 by paulogeyer, 16 years ago

Component: - GeneralNetwork & Internet

Hi, i've installed haiku on my disk today, and i couldn't use the BCM44xx driver.

I seems to be loaded, but i can't get dhcp information from my network, i've tried to set up manually, but it didn't work too.

paulo@samsa:~$ lspci |grep Eth 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02)

comment:4 by umccullough, 16 years ago

Did you use the ported bfe driver attached to this ticket? or the GPL bcm44xx driver that is already in the Haiku repo?

They are different drivers, I don't think the one attached to this ticket is in the repo yet (although, perhaps it should be?).

Also, when running lspci, it's always a good idea to throw -nn parameter on there to also pull the vendor/deviceid in the text.

in reply to:  4 ; comment:5 by paulogeyer, 16 years ago

paulo@samsa:~$ lspci |grep Eth 06:01.0 Ethernet controller: Broadcom Corporation BCM4401-B0 100Base-TX (rev 02) paulo@samsa:~$ lspci -nm|grep 06:01.0 06:01.0 "0200" "14e4" "170c" -hrev2 "1025" "0090"

i've tried the broadcom driver from the haiku repo, i'll try this bfe now

Replying to umccullough:

Did you use the ported bfe driver attached to this ticket? or the GPL bcm44xx driver that is already in the Haiku repo?

They are different drivers, I don't think the one attached to this ticket is in the repo yet (although, perhaps it should be?).

Also, when running lspci, it's always a good idea to throw -nn parameter on there to also pull the vendor/deviceid in the text.

in reply to:  4 ; comment:6 by andybe, 16 years ago

Replying to umccullough:

Did you use the ported bfe driver attached to this ticket? or the GPL bcm44xx driver that is already in the Haiku repo?

They are different drivers, I don't think the one attached to this ticket is in the repo yet (although, perhaps it should be?).

Also, when running lspci, it's always a good idea to throw -nn parameter on there to also pull the vendor/deviceid in the text.

This is a skeleton of bcm440 driver port from freebsd, it is not finished yet. I tested some source on my laptop, but fail on transfer. I got no time yet to look at it. This driver doesn't stop (hang up on irq) like the gpl one here in the source tree.

AndyBe

in reply to:  6 comment:7 by paulogeyer, 16 years ago

also, how do i use this? i've found there's a jamfile, but i don't know how to compile

Replying to andybe:

Replying to umccullough:

Did you use the ported bfe driver attached to this ticket? or the GPL bcm44xx driver that is already in the Haiku repo?

They are different drivers, I don't think the one attached to this ticket is in the repo yet (although, perhaps it should be?).

Also, when running lspci, it's always a good idea to throw -nn parameter on there to also pull the vendor/deviceid in the text.

This is a skeleton of bcm440 driver port from freebsd, it is not finished yet. I tested some source on my laptop, but fail on transfer. I got no time yet to look at it. This driver doesn't stop (hang up on irq) like the gpl one here in the source tree.

AndyBe

in reply to:  5 comment:8 by umccullough, 16 years ago

Type: bugenhancement

Replying to paulogeyer:

i've tried the broadcom driver from the haiku repo

If you're having problems with the one in the Haiku repo, you should probably open a separate bug for that since this ticket doesn't really appear to be a bug so much as a submission of a partially ported driver :)

comment:9 by umccullough, 16 years ago

Component: Network & InternetDrivers/Network

Hopefully enhancement is the right type... but forgot to update the others

comment:10 by PieterPanman, 16 years ago

Can you try with the latest haiku? Since hrev28597 it contains the bfe driver. It might not work 100%, remaining issues should be tracked in #2998. I think this ticket can be closed.

comment:11 by andybe, 16 years ago

Thanks for report, and also nice that someone pickt up the freebsd driver. I need to setup a a linux on an laptop to checkout, with hope of a wroking one..

I think this ticket can be closed because of a new driver.

I will open a ticket against the new driver.

Thanks at all.

Mfg AndyBe

comment:12 by korli, 16 years ago

Resolution: fixed
Status: newclosed

closed

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