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Broadcom bcm 4401

DISCUSSION Stephan von Krawczynski 4 participants 8 messages Jun 23, 2003 – Jun 24, 2003

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Stephan von Krawczynski

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Hello all,

does anybody know what drivers are available for BCM4401 network cards? Are they somehow compatible to whatever?

Regards,
Stephan

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Quoted 4 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski

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

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Quoted 8 lines · On 23 Jun 2003 15:04:29 +0100 Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoted 4 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski

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

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Quoted 4 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski

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

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Quoted 5 lines · Jeff Garzik

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 ?

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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

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Quoted 8 lines · On 24 Jun 2003 16:40:49 +0100 Alan Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
Quoted 5 lines · Jeff Garzik

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

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Quoted 7 lines · Stephan von Krawczynski

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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