From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Jan 9 13:14:31 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B470C37B69B for ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:14:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id NAA19567; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 13:07:31 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <200101092107.NAA19567@implode.root.com> To: Bert Driehuis Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Intel PRO/100+ driver or hardware? (Update) In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 09 Jan 2001 20:43:20 +0100." <3A5B69D8.C46CE2D1@nl.compuware.com> From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 13:07:31 -0800 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG >It is no doubt an oversight that this info is on the web site, seeing >that the "errata" for the 8255x seem to be available under NDA only... >And those errata make the difference between a reliable and an >unreliable drivern (actually, I think the developers did have access to >the errata; I see a workaround for at least one known issue with the >82559 in the if_fxp.c source). > >Incidentally, the 3Com 3C905TX is actually worse in this respect than >the Intel 100Pro. I did have access to an early copy of the errata, but it was a mistake that I got it without an NDA. Fortunately the 82557/8/9 had relatively few problems to begin with and the driver is very solid as a result. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message