From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Jun 1 14:27:53 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@FreeBSD.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 42A2C16B49C for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:27:53 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: from web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com (web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.206.116]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id BB7D643D79 for ; Thu, 1 Jun 2006 14:27:52 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from danial_thom@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 34877 invoked by uid 60001); 1 Jun 2006 14:27:52 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=Message-ID:Received:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:In-Reply-To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Content-Transfer-Encoding; b=4sb82gwUZdC7fneqLTEmN0bglznOWhk/ag5EWPTJ6zpuj/3PQSAVZxJzprxt8akaFOI5wpyJXD9rp74SzzuXDCp0TI2ZUzKD88L4WNTuc2/Ua2EGltiB/mi/9LLMRIZW5v07lpA3sHM6zdXbIDyPiRHV4OOMJa9hwTW7+3nmPGM= ; Message-ID: <20060601142752.34875.qmail@web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Received: from [65.34.182.15] by web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Thu, 01 Jun 2006 07:27:52 PDT Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:27:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom To: Chuck Swiger In-Reply-To: <447EF7A3.7040704@mac.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: danial_thom@yahoo.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 01 Jun 2006 14:27:53 -0000 No, I use drivers that are good. I don't feel the need to fix all that is broken in an OS; a good engineer finds what works and what doesn't and adjusts accordingly. Intel controllers are better than broadcom controllers anyways, so simply avoiding broadcom controllers is the strategy of choice. DT --- Chuck Swiger wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a > piece > > of crap; driver quality is a much more > telling > > factor in these free OS's than the card in > many > > cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers > worth > > anything (mainly because neither were written > by > > mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). > > No doubt you've written a truly remarkable > replacement driver which your email > is too small to contain. Unlike Fermat, > however, you've presumably hidden the > proof under the bridge where only trolls may > go. > > I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to > -chat or maybe /dev/null... > > -- > -Chuck > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com