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Re: Support for Broadcom BCM5906M (part 2)


From: "Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Oct 2008 11:53:53 +0800

On Wed, Oct 15, 2008 at 11:02 AM,  <elekktretterr@exemail.com.au> wrote:
> Hi Sephe and others,
>
> We had a lengthy discussion some time ago about this chipset that is in my
> laptop(i remember there was another person with the same chipset who also
> had this problem) that we couldn't get to work because the pci bridge was
> closed and forcing it open froze the laptop. Well I just downloaded
> OpenBSD 4.3 which claims to support this chipset, and unbelievebly it
> recognized it and i even managed to get an IP address via DHCP using and
> ping outside world, which means there's ways around it.
>
> Would it be too difficult to port the BGE driver from OpenBSD?

The problem is not the driver itself.

Best Regards,
sephe

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