From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 11 10:40:24 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.FreeBSD.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C006537B400 for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:40:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D961D43E6A for ; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:40:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g8BHeEf61322; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:40:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g8BHeE1o032079; Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:40:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:40:14 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200209111740.g8BHeE1o032079@vashon.polstra.com> To: hackers@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: ambrisko@ambrisko.com Subject: Re: bge problems (was: gigabit NIC of choice?) In-Reply-To: <200209111719.g8BHJfQ03083@ambrisko.com> References: <200209111719.g8BHJfQ03083@ambrisko.com> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <200209111719.g8BHJfQ03083@ambrisko.com>, Doug Ambrisko wrote: > John Polstra writes: > | If you want a gigabit interface that is likely to keep working in > | FreeBSD, your only option is to use the Intel chips and the "em" > | driver. It's our only gigabit driver that's maintained by somebody > | who has unrestricted access to the documentation and errata. > > Atleast one potential exception to this it that so far National seems > to keep their programming on line without needed an NDA. Whoops, thanks for the correction. That's good news. John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message