From owner-freebsd-small Thu Jun 11 18:34:39 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id SAA26521 for freebsd-small-outgoing; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:34:39 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (dingo.cdrom.com [204.216.28.145]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id SAA26489 for ; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 18:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mike@dingo.cdrom.com) Received: from dingo.cdrom.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dingo.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA01734; Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:28:09 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199806120028.RAA01734@dingo.cdrom.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0zeta 7/24/97 To: Timothy J Luoma cc: Mike Smith , small@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: PicoBSD Intel EtherExpress Pro/10+ _ISA_ supprt? In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 11 Jun 1998 21:26:40 EDT." <199806120126.VAA12973@luomat.peak.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 11 Jun 1998 17:28:09 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-small@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Author: Mike Smith > 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