Sorry, I'am not a developer, but I just wonder why the driver for Braodcom bcm4400 series LAN is not part of the kernel. It is almost nowhere to find - I found it just by accident. But many people ask for it. The driver does exist, it is GPL and is made by the Broadcom people. Does anybody want to get the driver and iclude it into the kernel? (I won't send it to the maillist now, so I remove the attachment from Mr. Chan.). Please, tell me or ask the developer. Thank you, Pavel ---------- (fwd) ---------- Subject: RE: bcm4400 driver Date: Fri, 10 Jan 2003 12:26:36 -0800 From: "Michael Chan" <mchan@broadcom.com> To: Pavel.Vondricka@ff.cuni.cz Pavel, Let me try to answer all your questions. Your email is not the first that I've received concerning problems or availability of the linux driver for 4401. First of all, Broadcom normally does not provide direct customer support to the end user because we don't have the infra-structure and the resources to do that. We develop and test these drivers and let the OEMs (ASUS in this case) handle all the customer support including distribution of the drivers. The requirement to have the linux driver for the 4401 was added in the last minute and that may be why you cannot find the driver on early CDs. By the way, the latest driver is 1.0.2 and I have attached it. As to the quality of the driver, I can tell you that it has gone through QA testing in our lab. on a variety of x86 systems and version 1.0.2 does not have any known high severity bugs. Yes, the first version was written in Aug., 2002 but the testing and qualification cycle took some time. I have notified the colleague who handles ASUS about this problem and I hope that things will improve in the future. Michael Chan > -----Original Message----- > From: Pavel Vondricka [mailto:Pavel.Vondricka@ff.cuni.cz] > Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 6:42 PM > To: mchan@broadcom.com > Subject: bcm4400 driver > > > Dear Mr. Chan, > it took me a long time to find your linux driver for Broadcom 4401 LAN > interface. I couldn't find anything on the Broadcom website nor an Asus > pages. At last I got the package bcm4400-1.0.1.tar.gz with the > help of some > old statistic page archived on Google. No information anywhere - > I'm lucky > that at least the file really stayed in the location I found. The rest I > found were just tons of questions from unhappy users. > > So I just wonder: why is this driver not to find on any support > or download > pages of the developer nor other equipment producers? Why is it still not > part of the official linux kernel, or at least it's development > version (or > is it already?). Is this driver illegal or so bad, that it needs > to be hidden > at the most forgotten end of the internet? I have heard it is now > distributed > on Asus KT400 driver CD rev. 34.01. However, my board from Asus > is only a few > month old and there is nothing on the CD rev. 37.01! Where should > I get the > driver? According to the info in the package, the driver was > written already > in the middle of august, last year! But when searching on > internet one day in > november I only found that "sorry, bcm 4401 is not supported in linux". > > I really appreciate that you wrote this driver and even more that > it is under > GPL. However, I think, it has no meaning to write drivers, if you do not > publish them. I suppose it isn't your mistake, but you are the > only person I > can warn about this problem. > > Thank you very much, anyway! > Pavel V. > > -- > ################################################################## > ######### > # mailto:Pavel.Vondricka@ff.cuni.cz / ICQ:143159880 > # http://web.ff.cuni.cz/~vondric > # > # Muzete mi psat cesky s libovolnym kodovanim (UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, > # windows-1250, atd. ...) > ################################################################## > ######### ------------------------------------------------------- -- ########################################################################### # mailto:Pavel.Vondricka@ff.cuni.cz / ICQ:143159880 # http://web.ff.cuni.cz/~vondric # # Muzete mi psat cesky s libovolnym kodovanim (UTF-8, ISO-8859-2, # windows-1250, atd. ...) ########################################################################### - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
