From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Apr 20 15: 3: 9 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from relay02.chello.nl (relay02.chello.nl [212.83.68.146]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 39F1837B5D3 for ; Thu, 20 Apr 2000 15:03:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from wkb@chello.nl) Received: from chello.nl ([213.46.78.184]) by relay02.chello.nl (InterMail vK.4.02.00.00 201-232-116 license 99c8f334c649856e3f2cdadc4054e412) with ESMTP id <20000420220231.GRZA18572.relay02@chello.nl>; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:02:31 +0200 Received: (from wkb@localhost) by chello.nl (8.9.3/8.9.3) id AAA08429; Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:02:33 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from wkb) Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:02:33 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte To: Ronald van der Pol Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE support DEC/INTEL 21041? Message-ID: <20000421000233.A8415@yedi.wbnet> Reply-To: wc.bulte@chello.nl References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:54:33PM +0200 X-OS: FreeBSD 3.4-STABLE X-PGP: finger wilko@freebsd.org Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:54:33PM +0200, Ronald van der Pol wrote: > I am trying to get a Farallon Ethernet card working on FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. > It has a chip labelled "digital 21041-pb". > > The kernel meesages say: > de0: irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 > de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > What does this mean? Is this card supported? It means the driver has not yet been changed to accomodate some changes in the driver API but runs in compatibility mode. This is a sort of reminder to the driver maintainer[s]. Not to worry.. -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message