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To: Jim Shankland <jas@flyingfox.com>
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Subject: Re: Which PCI Ethernet card is best for FreeBSD-current? 
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From: David Greenman <dg@root.com>
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Date: Thu, 02 Oct 1997 10:22:46 -0700
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>duplex, driver very well supported under FreeBSD :-).  I did recently
>get bitten by the "scrambled preamble" problem, which locks up (at least)
>rev 1 cards in (at least) 10 Mb mode when the wrong kind of noise is
>on the line.

   BTW, I added a work-around for this bug a few days ago in -current and
-stable. If you could verify that the problem is 'fixed', that would be
most helpful. Try as I might, I can't reproduce the lock-up problem here,
so I don't know for certain if it is really fixed.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project