From owner-freebsd-current Mon Oct 6 17:41:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id RAA11485 for current-outgoing; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:41:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current) Received: from awfulhak.demon.co.uk (awfulhak.demon.co.uk [158.152.17.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id RAA11458; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 17:41:02 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@awfulhak.org) Received: from gate.lan.awfulhak.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by awfulhak.demon.co.uk (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id WAA03723; Mon, 6 Oct 1997 22:50:11 +0100 (BST) Message-Id: <199710062150.WAA03723@awfulhak.demon.co.uk> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Attention all users of the de driver! In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 05 Oct 1997 23:56:51 PDT." <1948.876121011@time.cdrom.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 06 Oct 1997 22:50:11 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > If you have a de0 device in your machine and you're running -current, > NOW is the time to let us know if there are any problems with it! > > We know for a fact that 2.2-stable's driver does not work on at least > one card, the Znyx 4-port NIC, but we also don't know if 3.0-current > is going to break a lot more people if we bring it in. Therefore, if > you do NOT wish to see the de driver in 2.2-stable updated using the > 3.0-current bits, now is the time to speak up since we will otherwise > take your silence as "it works great, bring it on over!" > > Jordan Just this (posted to -hackers on Sep 13): Subject: de0: system error: master abort > I haven't looked into this myself, but it's annoying me enough (dmesg > is useless) to ask if anyone else is seeing it. > > I get literally millions of these *all* the time. I've commented out > the error locally, but I thought I might ask if anyone added this > feature on purpose. > -- > Brian , > > Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour.... It's an SMC card... de0: rev 0x11 int a irq 9 on pci0.17.0 de0: SMC 21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1 de0: address 00:00:c0:ff:e9:ce de0: enabling 10baseT port If anyone wants to know more, I'll open the box. The card seems to function ok - the errors are annoying though :-| -- Brian , , Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour....