Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 09:07:27 -0500 From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Message-ID: <19970506090727.51754@shell.futuresouth.com> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970506085105.006beb10@etinc.com>; from Dennis on Tue, May 06, 1997 at 08:51:08AM -0400 References: <3.0.32.19970506085105.006beb10@etinc.com>
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On Tue, May 06, 1997 at 08:51:08AM -0400, Dennis wrote: > At 03:06 PM 5/5/97 -0700, you wrote: > >On Mon, 05 May 1997 17:54:02 -0400 > > dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote: > > > > > Is there (yet) a fix for the newer 21040-AC parts without having to > > > do the if_media hack in 2.2.1? > > > >What do you mean "hack"? if_media is the only way you can possibly > >represent all of the media options on those parts. > > Its a "hack" because the user has to hack his O/S to make it work. Its simply > not feasible to have a customer do this. I had no trouble incorporating if_de.c, but ifconfig support is "broken" in 2.2 I believe (I mean broken as in the internal net structure has changed enough that it isn't trivial to make it work). I think Matt Thomas's document is based on 2.1.X. I did not test to see whether the 2.2 ifconfig already support the media options. After 4 months of fighting if_de.c and losing that support everytime we upgrade the kernel, I am just going to buy the Intel boards and see if I can sell the 21140-AC boards to people who don't run FreeBSD. Of course now that I say this in public somebody is going to go incorporate the if_de code in the FreeBSD kernel.. :-) Anybody want to buy a handful of Kingston 10/100Mb PCI cards, cheap? Tim
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