Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:49:59 -0700 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: Gerhard Sittig <Gerhard.Sittig@gmx.net> Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? Message-ID: <39FF68B7.E1CE6A90@softweyr.com> References: <Pine.LNX.4.20.0010242138180.28000-100000@mail.clones.com> <Pine.BSF.4.21.0010260053110.623-200000@sasami.jurai.net> <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet>
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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)
They're discussing the ISA card, which has very little to do with your
PCI bus.
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