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Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 11:57:05 -0400
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From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
Subject: Re: if_de.c ????
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At 09:07 AM 5/6/97 -0500, you wrote:
>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..  :-)

Nah, the ppl that care have already switched to the card of the moment, 
the Intel Pro/100B.

This is a BIG image blow to FreeBSD...after all the hoopla about how great the
if_de card/driver was in '96.

Gotta get that NT driver going!

Dennis