Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this I just got a 3com 3c996B-T with a bcm5701 chip. It doesn't work with a kernel built from 4.5-RC source pulled Friday: the gigabit phy goes unrecognized, gets

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread David Malone
On Wed, Jan 30, 2002 at 11:41:05AM -0800, John Polstra wrote: From investigating the Linux driver, I gather there are a few features in these chips which may need workarounds (e.g., the Debian driver includes a new firmware image for some 5701 revs'; and forces master mode in some revs,

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], David Malone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We've had alot of trouble with the builtin card in our Dell 2550s. I'm going to try swapping hardware to see if we've got a bad machine, but I suspect the chip is just plain broken. Well, it seems to work OK with the Linux

Re: Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-30 Thread John Polstra
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jonathan Stone [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the responses. Any chance the miidevs hack and phy workarounds will make it into -current or FreeBSD 4.5? I'm not going to commit anything unless/until I get the driver working properly with the 5701, including

Broadcom 5701 (3com 3c996B-T) phy support in 4.5?

2002-01-29 Thread Jonathan Stone
Apologies if this is the wrong place to ask this I just got a 3com 3c996B-T with a bcm5701 chip. It doesn't work with a kernel built from 4.5-RC source pulled Friday: the gigabit phy goes unrecognized, gets attached as a ukphy, which (obviously) doesn't support 1000baseTX. Is this expected