From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Sep 25 00:46:06 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id AAA19827 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:46:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from research.gate.nec.co.jp (research.gate.nec.co.jp [202.32.8.49]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id AAA19777 for ; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 00:46:02 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sbl-gw.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp by research.gate.nec.co.jp (8.7.6+2.6Wbeta7/950912) with ESMTP id QAA17052; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:45:55 +0900 (JST) Received: from sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp by sbl-gw.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (8.7.5+2.6Wbeta6/3.3W6) with ESMTP id QAA04658; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:45:54 +0900 (JST) X-Authentication-Warning: sbl-gw.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp: Host nao@sirius [133.207.68.90] claimed to be sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp Received: by sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp (8.7.5+2.6Wbeta6/3.3W6) with UUCP id QAA04292; Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:45:52 +0900 (JST) Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 16:45:52 +0900 (JST) From: Naoki Hamada Message-Id: <199609250745.QAA04292@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp> References: <199609250652.IAA28602@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> To: Guido.vanRooij@nl.cis.philips.com CC: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-reply-to: Guido van Rooij's message of "Wed, 25 Sep 1996 08:52:57 +0200 (MET DST)" <199609250652.IAA28602@spooky.lss.cp.philips.com> Subject: Re: new if_vx driver in incoming on freefal Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Guido wrote: >With this driver the 'hanging card in OACTIVE' should b fixed without >the gross hack I introduced earlier. I am planning to implement a fix >for the early revision adapters. These are not identified by my driver, >but the old (original if_vx) way of identifying them was *correct*. No. When the old vx driver attempt to read the EEPROM_SOFT_INFO_2 register, 'WINDOW 2' is selected instead of the right 'WINDOW 0'. Then the driver reports that all the adapters are defective, which is not the truth :-< -nao