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Date:      Mon, 23 Nov 1998 15:16:42 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Paul Richards <paul@originative.co.uk>
Cc:        Mike <mgrommet@insolwwb.net>, freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Problems with this network card / driver? 
Message-ID:  <199811232316.PAA00495@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 23 Nov 1998 20:27:58 GMT." <E40CBF0361C7D111914000C0F0303D1087EE@OCTOPUS> 

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> > > Hi guys... using 3.0 release on 2 servers....3.0 reports 
> > this particular
> > > card like this on boot
> > > 
> > > lnc1: <PCNet/PCI Ethernet adapter> rev 0x25 int a irq 14 on pci1.5.0
> > > lnc1: PCnet-FAST address 00:60:94:57:4c:f2
> > 
> > Yeah.  The lnc driver is pretty marginal at the moment.  I'd avoid it 
> > if at all possilble.  I ran some tests at the local IBM 
> > evaluation lab 
> > and I wasn't too happy with the onboard ethernet.  Try an Intel 
> > EtherExpress Pro/100B instead if you're really concerned.
> 
> Have you any specific details on why you think it's not working? It
> seems there's a bug been introduced recently relating to detecting cards
> that I'll look into but I'm not aware of any other problems with the
> driver that would make it necessary to avoid using it.

The key feature of all of the failures I can recall has been that 
the device is identified, but does not work (usually failing 
initialisation).


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