Date: Wed, 11 Apr 2001 23:13:29 -0500 (CDT) From: David Scheidt <dscheidt@tumbolia.com> To: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> Cc: Bruce Albrecht <bruce@zuhause.mn.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Linux and network cards Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0104112253420.49199-100000@shell-2.enteract.com> In-Reply-To: <200104120221.f3C2LYP19789@grumpy.dyndns.org>
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On Wed, 11 Apr 2001, David Kelly wrote: :Interesting that he happily downloaded somebody's utility and inserted :it in his system config to smack a NIC into half duplex. Apparently :something the Linux driver didn't have a syscall for, or something the :Linux ifconfig didn't support. I'm pretty sure there are some FreeBSD drivers that don't suport this, either. That may have changed, though. :I am not a kernel programmer but way back in 1996 my version 0.0 21040 :started having problems with FreeBSD when autosensing was being added to :the de driver. So that's the last time I spent much time really reading :that code. My impression was the difficulty was in figuring out *how* to :set the duplex mode on the media interface on cards of different :manufacture. The card doesn't set the mode, the driver has to tell it :what to do. Auto-sensing is hard, too. There's lots of hardware that doesn't do the right thing. :> B) Linux is brain-dead and can't configure this with ifconfig or :> whatever their equivalent command. : :That seems to be half of it. This article triggered waves of memories of :trying to use Linux in 1995. Trial and error and compromise for the :right set of kernel patches. Yeah. The Feng-Shui of Linux config-management is still a pain. David -- dscheidt@tumbolia.com Bipedalism is only a fad. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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