Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 12:15:15 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: rgrimes@GndRsh.aac.dev.com (Rodney W. Grimes) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: CNET ethernet cards? Message-ID: <199610240245.MAA04482@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <199610231509.IAA04483@GndRsh.aac.dev.com> from "Rodney W. Grimes" at Oct 23, 96 08:09:35 am
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Rodney W. Grimes stands accused of saying: > > > > I've been offered the CNET CN970EBT at a reasonable price, and with > > good availability. I _seem_ to recall Rod endorsing these guys, but > > I can't actually find his mail anywhere. > > I have not endorsed this card, never haveing seen one. I am currently > using the Kingston KNE40BT cards for production, they have been qualified > by me for use in the FreeBSD systems I sell. Ok. I received a response indicating that the CNET CN935EBT works with the -current driver OK; I have been offered a KTX tulip-based card for evaluation at about half the price of the CNET card, and will report on its functionality later today. KTX are about as low as one can go in this country; I expect the card to be pretty poor, but as all of the critical hardware on those cards is inside the blob one can _hope_ that they got it OK. > > Anyone? Anyone got one of the current Compex cards working > happily with > Matt's latest if_de? He hasn't sent me mail telling > me that he has released the really ugly hacks to make it work with > the Compex card I sent him for his test lab. He has found the > problem (long long ago) and _could_ hack around it, but the hack to > make it work could very easily have side effects for other boards. > Compex has done some strange things on the card that requires you to > do some special I/O to make it work, this special I/O only appears > in thier drivers so they basicially broke everyone who had written a > DC21xxx driver, something I frown How does this explain their card working with the stock W95 driver, which predates the release of their card by several months? > on and avoid if at all possible. For this stunt I have placed them > on my ``don't buy list, never know when they are going to screw you > over with a revision of a product, and can't get you reasonable > engineering responses to an opened problem ticket''. I agree totally on your evaluation of their product policies; the card didn't even get a new *&^%*&$%%^$ model number, so you have to check the board rev. to determine whether it will work or not. > Rod Grimes rgrimes@gndrsh.aac.dev.com -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@gsoft.com.au.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@gsoft.com.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control. (ph) +61-8-8267-3493 [[ ]] Unix hardware collector. "Where are your PEZ?" The Tick [[
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