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Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:06:01 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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To: Garth Corral <garthc@compass-da.com>
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Subject: Re: ep driver buggy?
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On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Garth Corral wrote:

> Found this while browsing the FreeBSD handbook at freebsd.org:
> 
> [from section 5.3.8. Networking]
> 
> device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr
> 
>             3Com 3C509 (buggy)
> 
> What exactly does 'buggy' mean?  Is this up to date?

The 3c509 driver has come on hard times recently.  It isn't very stable,
main example being that the card will 'disappear' until it is disabled and
re-enabled with 'ifconfig ed0 down' and 'ifconfig ed0 up'.  

The NE2000 code is still as solid as ever :-)  

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major