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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 ????
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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