Date: Fri, 8 Nov 1996 09:58:43 -0800 (PST) From: "Rodney W. Grimes" <rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> To: Don.Lewis@tsc.tdk.com (Don Lewis) Cc: jkh@time.cdrom.com, stable@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: The curtain is going down on 2.1-stable in 5 days! Message-ID: <199611081758.JAA00761@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> In-Reply-To: <199611081130.DAA19832@salsa.gv.ssi1.com> from Don Lewis at "Nov 8, 96 03:30:40 am"
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> On Nov 8, 2:09am, "Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote: > } Subject: The curtain is going down on 2.1-stable in 5 days! > } > } So. David and I have decided that next Tuesday, the 12th of November, > } would be an excellent time to start putting FreeBSD 2.1.6 to bed, and > } if you've got any critical bug fixes or security problems to report in > } 2.1-stable, now would be an excellent time to raise them before it's > } too late. > > Security: > the rwhod buffer overflow patch that's been circulating lately > > Bug fix: > The de driver doesn't work especially well with the SMC 9332 > 10/100 card. About one in ten times, it is initialized to some > funny state at boot time that causes the fault light on its > hub to flash and all the HP-UX boxes on that hub to shut down > their network interfaces. The de driver swiped from from -current > a few weeks ago and butchered so that compiles under -stable seems > to work perfectly. Judging by some of the comments in that version > of the driver, I suspect this problem may affect other cards with > the DC21140. Further notes on the if_de.c driver... D-Link has revised the DFE-500TX from revision B-1 to C-1, the card no longer works under RELENG_2_1_0, and infact behaves just like the Kingston KNE100TX card. So it now looks like the only card that I have qualified for 100MB/s operation is the SMC9332, and above is a report about problems with it :-(. Bottom line... the if_de.c driver in -stable is in need of some serious attention :-(. -- Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com Accurate Automation, Inc. Reliable computers for FreeBSD
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