From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 31 6:16:41 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mail.gmx.net (pop.gmx.net [194.221.183.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 8C60737B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 06:16:38 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 16204 invoked by uid 0); 31 Oct 2000 14:16:37 -0000 Received: from p3ee21606.dip.t-dialin.net (HELO speedy.gsinet) (62.226.22.6) by mail.gmx.net with SMTP; 31 Oct 2000 14:16:37 -0000 Received: (from sittig@localhost) by speedy.gsinet (8.8.8/8.8.8) id KAA00824 for current@FreeBSD.ORG; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:57:11 +0100 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 10:57:11 +0100 From: Gerhard Sittig To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? Message-ID: <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0i In-Reply-To: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net>; from peter@dataloss.net on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 12:08:55AM +0100 Organization: System Defenestrators Inc. Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 00:08 +0100, Peter van Dijk wrote: > > 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. Which driver version are you talking about? I didn't follow this stuff too closely (my EEPro100 always worked when not sitting in an Asus SP3 board which has problems of its own regarding PCI) but there is an enhanced and corrected driver besides the "official" in the Linux kernel. It always got good critics and seems to work reliable from what I hear. Donald Becker's original http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/kern-2.3/index.html ftp://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/pub/linux/drivers/kern-2.3 Andrey Savochkin's improvements ftp://ftp.sw.com.sg/pub/Linux/people/saw/kernel/ I don't know whether the ML eepro100@scyld.com (the Linux EEPro list) is archived somewhere and how useful http://support.intel.com/support/network/adapter/pro100/100linux.htm is. But I hope these links to be helpful. virtually yours 82D1 9B9C 01DC 4FB4 D7B4 61BE 3F49 4F77 72DE DA76 Gerhard Sittig true | mail -s "get gpg key" Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net -- If you don't understand or are scared by any of the above ask your parents or an adult to help you. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message