From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu May 8 21:43:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA10035 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 8 May 1997 21:43:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA10030 for ; Thu, 8 May 1997 21:43:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.5/8.6.9) with ESMTP id VAA16470; Thu, 8 May 1997 21:40:45 -0700 (PDT) To: Tim Tsai cc: Warner Losh , Joerg Wunsch , Jaye Mathisen , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 08 May 1997 21:40:36 CDT." <19970508214036.32788@shell.futuresouth.com> Date: Thu, 08 May 1997 21:40:45 -0700 Message-ID: <16466.863152845@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > BTW, I did write to some of the consultants on the web page. Nobody > replied. Afraid it's too little too late for us on the de driver. I will > know where to ask next time though! I think Amancio's still waiting for you to write him back, actually. ;) > I think the moral of the story is to not trust the supported hardware > list and just buy whatever cdrom.com uses. No, the moral of the story is to use the supported hardware list as a _baseline_ and then ask what's most recommended, just as I've posted in my own list at http://www.freebsd.org/handbook/hw.html Just because, say, the aic0 driver is present still doesn't mean you'd want to use it if you had the choice of a better adapter/driver combo and that will always be true, no matter how good (or bad) things like the aic0 driver may be. The PC market is a dog's breakfast. A few good bits surrounded by largely offensive muck. Jordan