From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 17 9:15: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net [207.217.120.62]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BF47037B403; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:15:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert2@mindspring.com) Received: from mindspring.com (dialup-209.245.129.200.Dial1.SanJose1.Level3.net [209.245.129.200]) by snipe.mail.pas.earthlink.net (EL-8_9_3_3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id JAA02409; Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:15:00 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3B5464AA.ABF18DE6@mindspring.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2001 09:15:38 -0700 From: Terry Lambert Reply-To: tlambert2@mindspring.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en]C-CCK-MCD {Sony} (Win98; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Bill Paul Cc: Richard Hodges , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NatSemi DP83820 gigE driver kit for 4.2 and 4.3 References: <20010716233436.7C0DB37B407@hub.freebsd.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Bill Paul wrote: > Now, before any of you armchair geniuses out there start chiming in > with your incredibly brilliant solutions for this problem which you > just made up on the spot, forget it. This issue has been discussed > to death and there's just no easy way around it. > > Terry Lambert and Alfred Perlstein, this means you. I mean it. Put > down the keyboard and back away from the computer or *blam!* I'll shoot. I agree with you entirely: the chips that do not allow this are incredibly brain damaged. But I _do_ have a fix... 8-)... don't buy brain-damaged hardware. -- Terry To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message