Date: Tue, 04 Oct 2005 11:22:35 -0400 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: Benjamin Rosenblum <ben@benswebs.com> Cc: net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-(( Message-ID: <43429E3B.1080900@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <4342987D.7000200@benswebs.com> References: <4341089F.7010504@jku.at> <20051003104548.GB70355@cell.sick.ru> <4341242F.9060602@jku.at> <20051003123210.GF70355@cell.sick.ru> <43426EF3.3020404@jku.at> <9CD8C672-1EF2-42FE-A61E-83DC684C893D@dragondata.com> <43429157.90606@jku.at> <4342987D.7000200@benswebs.com>
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Benjamin Rosenblum wrote: > i have been messing with the em driver now for over a month, ive come to > the conclusion is a piece of crap. if you watch on this list every > other day you have someone saying there em driver is causing some sort > of error, this should not be on a nic from a company like intel. This is known as "selection bias". People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even though it does, at least for them. I've got a dozen or so machines with that hardware, and I haven't seen any problems with them. > im saddly contimplating moving over to fedora right now just so i can work > until 6.0 comes out (which i doubt will solve the problem anyway since > im using the drivers from 6.0 now and there not helping out either). If you want to use Fedora instead, go right ahead and do so... > somebody really needs to look into this and find out what the hell is > going on as i consider this a major problem right now. Are you volunteering? -- -Chuck
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