From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] Broadcom drivers, yet again From: erik quanstrom Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2007 09:55:09 -0400 In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Topicbox-Message-UUID: d536edf8-ead2-11e9-9d60-3106f5b1d025 > Maybe someone could retrofit this? > > http://mailman.3ti.be/pipermail/clusterknoppix/2003-September/ > 000084.html > Direct link: http://mailman.3ti.be/pipermail/clusterknoppix/ > attachments/20030923/8ebb3ddf/bcm4400-1.0.1.tar.obj i'm not going to do that. especially for a product that i've got to stand behind. i've written drivers for hardware with linux source and no specs. although that particular hardware was beautifully designed, and i had full vendor support, it was still pretty difficult without proper documentation. from what i understand, the broadcom chips are quirky and have a long list of errata. i'm not good enough at guessing what sweet bits i need to put where to keep a moody thing like that happy. sorry. if you have a desktop motherboard with 1x pcie available, i'd personally recommend the intel pro 1000/PT. http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=2276643&CatId=200 they're about $34. i have two of them in my cpu server at home. - erik