From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Sep 14 10: 7: 6 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7389514D67 for ; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:06:52 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id KAA00735; Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:00:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Message-Id: <199909141700.KAA00735@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.2 2/24/98 To: "Sameer R. Manek" Cc: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org, hpeyerl@novatel.ca Subject: Re: 3.3-RC and 3com 509 Driver In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 11 Sep 1999 13:44:26 PDT." <000501befc96$6fd3d480$2200000a@after.school.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 10:00:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > In the lint file for 3.3-RC it says the following: > > # ep: 3Com 3C509 (buggy) > > But I see the driver for the card hasn't been modified in > quite some time. > * if_ep.c,v 1.19 1995/01/24 20:53:45 davidg Exp > > Is the lint file just out of date? or is the NIC buggy? > the driver buggy? We are using the card in my apartment, > and I haven't seen any evidence of bugs yet. The NIC:driver combination is sometimes buggy. We don't really understand why these work well for some people and terribly for others. -- \\ The mind's the standard \\ Mike Smith \\ of the man. \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ -- Joseph Merrick \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message