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From: james toy <mail@0xabadba.be>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@9fans.net>
Subject: Re: [9fans] Broadcom ethernet controller
Date: Mon, 13 Jul 2009 05:18:20 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <61c92c7d0907130218ha6b8c87h88ce6e17575f8f76@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <80c99e790907130129v2af2e16axc4c9653cd6368dd9@mail.gmail.com>

==8<==
> I have a Dell Inspiron with a Broadcom BCM4401 ethernet controller that does
> not seem to be recognized by Plan9.
> The same problem arose few years ago: http://9fans.net/archive/2005/07/9
> Has it been solved yet?
==8<==

There is no solved perse, its just a card that is not supported at
this time.  You can find the supported PC hardware here:

http://www.plan9.bell-labs.com/wiki/plan9/Supported_PC_hardware/index.html

additionally I have an IBM t43 and expect to write a driver over the
next year (after USB ether gets fixed) its for a Broadcom BCM5751M.
Perhaps it might have some similarities if you decide to write a
driver for your own card.  You might want to try using the new
usb/ether interface for now -- thanks to Nemo.


+=jt



      reply	other threads:[~2009-07-13  9:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 2+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-13  8:29 Lorenzo Bolla
2009-07-13  9:18 ` james toy [this message]

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