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From: guido@gvr.win.tue.nl (Guido van Rooij)
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Subject: Re: new if_vx driver on freefall
To: dfr@render.com (Doug Rabson)
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 22:45:08 +0200 (MET DST)
Cc: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.org
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.95.960917182258.11343D-100000@minnow.render.com> from Doug Rabson at "Sep 17, 96 06:37:55 pm"
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Doug Rabson wrote:
> On Tue, 17 Sep 1996, Guido van Rooij wrote:
> 
> > I've put the two following files on ftp://freefall.freebsd.org:/pub/inccoming:
> > 
> > newif_vx.tgz
> > newif_vx.tgz.README
> > 
> > Ppl with hanging cards should try them out. There is a gross hack inside
> > but I first need to get sepcs form 3com to identify what's going on.
> 
> This driver works fine for me but then my card wasn't hanging :-).  It
> didn't build in -current but that was pretty easy to fix.  I will try to
> put together a patch for -current if you want tomorrow.

If you happen to have a 3c590, could you undef the BROKEN_AVAIL define and
see if you card still works after doing a ping -f -s 1000 <some nearby host>
(as root of course).

-Guido