Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:28:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: Timothy J Luoma <luomat+FreeBSD@luomat.peak.org> Cc: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ _ISA_ supprt? Message-ID: <199806120028.RAA01734@dingo.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:26:40 EDT." <199806120126.VAA12973@luomat.peak.org>
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> Author: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> > Original-Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:02:44 -0700 > Message-ID: <199806120002.RAA01604@dingo.cdrom.com> > > > The EtherExpress card is supported by the 'ie' driver. > > Sorry but I don't see any 'ie' entries when p-FBSD boots. > > Does it have to be recompiled? Sounds like it, yes. > > 'ed' is for the (cheaper, faster) NE2000 and similar. > > I heard those were unreliable.... Where from? The 'ed' driver is the most reliable and fastest of the ISA ethernet drivers in FreeBSD; with a $20 NE2000 clone I can easily saturate a 10Mbps ethernet. Until just recently when we upgraded to 100Mbps, the freebsd.org cluster was using the 'ed' driver on a mix of NE2000 and WD8013 cards. There's nothing inherently unreliable about them, no. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-small" in the body of the message
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