Re: Networking troubles

On Feb 22, 2005, at 4:05 PM, [email protected] wrote:

> Hello again,
>
> OpenDarwin is now running on the laptop, however it did not detect the
> "wired" network interface.  It's a Broadcom NetXtreme Gigabit chip
> (BCM5705).  I looked at the HCL and it doesn't list it either way, 
> working
> or non-working.  After some poking around, I did notice that there's a
> driver for BCM5701 (AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext), but apparently the 
> binary
> is for PPC only.  However the AppleGMACEthernet binary appears to 
> support
> both PPC and x86.  Is this some kind of a universal network driver, 
> like
> the good old NE driver in Linux?  Anything I can do to force 
> recognition
> of my network card?  TIA.
>

No such thing as a universal driver under OpenDarwin. The 
AppleBCM5701Ethernet.kext is distributed in binary-only form by Apple 
(you may fetch it from [1]). Without the source there isn't any way to 
create a fat binary that also contains the x86 instructions.

cr

[1] http://cvs.opendarwin.org/index.cgi/src/build/apple_binary/