From owner-freebsd-current Tue Oct 31 16:49:54 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from homer.softweyr.com (mail.dobox.com [208.187.122.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D51D37B4C5 for ; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 16:49:52 -0800 (PST) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (helo=softweyr.com ident=Fools trust ident!) by homer.softweyr.com with esmtp (Exim 3.16 #1) id 13qm6J-0000Dc-00; Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:49:59 -0700 Message-ID: <39FF68B7.E1CE6A90@softweyr.com> Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2000 17:49:59 -0700 From: Wes Peters Organization: Softweyr LLC X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.12 i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gerhard Sittig Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel Etherexpress support? References: <20001031000855.C260@dataloss.net> <20001031105711.M25237@speedy.gsinet> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- "Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?" Wes Peters Softweyr LLC wes@softweyr.com http://softweyr.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message