Date: Thu, 1 Aug 1996 20:37:29 -0400 (EDT) From: "Amir Y. Rosenblatt" <amir@neuron.net> To: imb@asstdc.com.au (michael butler) Cc: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, nate@mt.sri.com, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_ep.c driver brokeness (was Re: 3Com (589b) troubles) Message-ID: <199608020037.UAA07308@prozac.neuron.net> In-Reply-To: <199608011835.EAA00216@walkabout.asstdc.com.au> from "michael butler" at Aug 2, 96 04:35:06 am
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> > The interesting thing is that there are also (few? many?) people where > > it actually improved things. Anyway, a better fix is certainly needed > > (one that satisfies all people, not just a few only), so back it out > > and suggest another one. :) > > What we _really_ need is for people to explain which cards do better with > which version .. at least then we might be able to use the appropriate IRQ > strategy according to which card is detected. Just having people stick their > hand up and say "it's busted" without specifying what broke is unhelpful, OK -- I have a 3c509B-TP. When the change was added, it began being very problematic. basically after a fairly small amount of data passes over it (like a single small web page or opening a mailbox index) it would stop passing data and start dishing out "no buffer space" messages. I would have posted earlier but the problem had already been mentioned. -Amir
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