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Date:      Thu, 17 May 2001 15:26:09 +0200
From:      valgog@biofrontera.de
To:        freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Cc:        Jean-Charles Grgoire <gregoire@inrs-telecom.uquebec.ca>
Subject:   Re: Intel PRO/1000F do not run on 4.3-RELEASE
Message-ID:  <01051715270880400@Mercur.biofrontera.de>
In-Reply-To: <20010517081706.B1613@saguaro.INRS-Telecom.UQuebec.CA>
References:  <01051713373178200@Mercur.biofrontera.de>; from valgog@biofrontera.de on Thu, May 17, 2001 at 01:36:32PM %2B0200

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> Valentine,
>    
> This one pops up every other month. Intel has a driver for Linux. The driver on
> FreeBSD doesn't work for current generation boards. There is a module
> somewhere, with partial functionality, which appears to work, but without
> sources.
> 
> jc

Dear Jean-Charles,

Could you please, say even approximately, where to search for this 
module. And I am wandering why there is a working driver in 
5.0-CURRENT and not working one in 4.3-RELEASE.

Thank you in advance,

Valentine Gogichashvili
  Biofrontera Pharmaceuticals AG
  UNIX system manager and DBA

>> 
>>    We have a problem with an Intel PRO/1000F Network Adapter.
>>    
>>    On FreeBSD 4.2-REALEASE and on 4.3-REALESE the driver sais that 
>>    everithing is ok, it sees the MAC address and even sences that the 
>>    cable is connected (or disconnected). BUT it does not work. It sends 
>>    nothing out and gets nothing in. We though, at first, that it was a 
>>    hardwere problem, but on SuSE Linux it works (we had to make this 
>>    experiment and we have to run this configuration -- it is really 
>>    cricical in time). Then we saw that on 5.0-CURRENT the adapter works 
>>    fine... but I do not want to run CURRENT version on this "absolutely 
>>    not experimental" file server. (And I do not want to run Linux :-) it 
>>    is always CURRENT ;) )
>>    
>>    Waiting for a suggestion.
>>    
>>    Valentine Gogichashvili
>>    Biofrontera Pharmaceuticals AG
>>    UNIX system manager and DBA



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