Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 00:08:55 +0100 From: Peter van Dijk <peter@dataloss.net> To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? Message-ID: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010260053110.623-200000@sasami.jurai.net>; from winter@jurai.net on Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:58:28AM -0400 References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0010242138180.28000-100000@mail.clones.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010260053110.623-200000@sasami.jurai.net>
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On Thu, Oct 26, 2000 at 12:58:28AM -0400, Matthew N. Dodd wrote: > On Tue, 24 Oct 2000, Glendon Gross wrote: > > Is it possible to use the old Intel EtherExpress-16 cards with FreeBSD? > > The driver was broken a while back and I'm right in the middle of trying > to fix it. I've actually given up on the FreeBSD driver and ported the > NetBSD driver with mixed success. I've got 3c503 boards working great but > the EE16s are really nasty and I'm still tracking down a few issues. > > You might try the attached patch against sys/dev/ie/if_ie.c though as I'm > not quite ready to commit what I've got. Without looking at any of your code, I would kindly like to ask you not to look at the Linux driver for eexpress too much - it's severely broken and has all kinds of timing problems that can crash boxes at predictable moments (some boxes crash when you ifconfig, some crash when you run tcpdump [probably on the switch to PROMISC]). Slower boxes seem to work better. Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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