Broadcom bcm 4401

Broadcom bcm 4401

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

Hello all,

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

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Alan Cox]

On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 14:10, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 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

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On 23 Jun 2003 15:04:29 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 14:10, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> > 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

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Mitch]

Asus supply a Linux driver as part of their
motherboards supporting the chip, but it can also be
downloaded from

	ftp://ftp.asus.com.tw/pub/ASUS/lan/broadcom/4401

Mitch

-------- Original Message --------
Subject:  Broadcom bcm 4401
From:     Stephan von Krawczynski <skraw () ithnet ! com>
Date:     2003-06-23 13:10:40

Hello all,

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

Regards,
Stephan

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Llu, 2003-06-23 at 14:10, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 
>>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

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Alan Cox]

On Maw, 2003-06-24 at 15:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
> 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 ?

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Jeff Garzik]

Alan Cox wrote:
> On Maw, 2003-06-24 at 15:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 
>>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

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Stephan von Krawczynski]

On 24 Jun 2003 16:40:49 +0100
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:

> On Maw, 2003-06-24 at 15:31, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > 
> > 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

Re: Broadcom bcm 4401

[Zinx Verituse]

On Mon, Jun 23, 2003 at 03:10:40PM +0200, Stephan von Krawczynski wrote:
> 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.

-- 
Zinx Verituse