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In-Reply-To: <199702230001.QAA02476@freefall.freebsd.org> from Mike Pritchard at "Feb 22, 97 04:01:43 pm"
To: mpp@freefall.freebsd.org (Mike Pritchard)
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 1997 13:25:09 +0100 (MET)
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Mike Pritchard wrote:
> Synopsis: Warning! Defective early revision adapter!
> 
> >From looking at things, the message reported in the
> PR is just a warning, and it should work.  This can probably
> just be closed.  Although you might want to improve the
> error message?
> 

Indeed, it is a warning. But if you get it you get lousy performance.
The warning is quite correct. It is almost exactly as what is in the
3com specs. There used to be a bug in the driver where this message
was print even for good adapters sometimes. This is fixed however.

The PR will be closed by me.

-Guido