From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 31 9: 0:48 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from dataloss.net (massive.dataloss.net [212.189.232.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3E94337B4E5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 09:00:46 -0800 (PST) Received: (qmail 3303 invoked by uid 1000); 31 Oct 2000 16:57:46 -0000 Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:57:46 +0100 From: Peter van Dijk To: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? Message-ID: <20001031175746.E260@dataloss.net> Mail-Followup-To: current@FreeBSD.ORG References: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet>; from Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net on Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:57:11AM +0100 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, Oct 31, 2000 at 10:57:11AM +0100, Gerhard Sittig wrote: > 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) [snip] We're talking about the old eexpress cards, not the eepro's. eepro's rock :) Greetz, Peter -- dataloss networks '/ignore-ance is bliss' - me 'Het leven is een stuiterbal, maar de mijne plakt aan t plafond!' - me To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message