I recently acquired a Dell "opensource" laptop and am trying to install OpenBSD on it. But I am having a problem with the Ethernet. The device is detected as a Broadcom chipset and is managed by the bge driver. This is all from a i386 4.3 CD but I had the same problem with an old 4.4 snapshot. > bge0 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 "Broadcom BCM5906NP rev 0x02, > BCM5906A2(0xc002): irq 10, address ... If I ifconfig from the (s)hell I can set up everything but it complains that status: no carrier. And indeed there is no light whatsoever in the socket. The device works in Ubuntu with the Tigon3 driver, so I suspected it could need some sort of firmware, but this is not the Intel wireless and everything else is supposed to be more or less open. The laptop is listed as working(minus ACPI) as of 4.2 in /i386-laptop.html although its dmesg doesn't quite agree: "Broadcom BCM5906M" rev 0x02 at pci4 dev 0 function 0 not configured Has anyone managed to get 1330 Ethernet to work?
Thank you
