From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Jul 10 12: 9:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from damgwp01.corp.sprint.com (parker2.sprint.com [199.14.91.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 473E937B407 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 12:09:15 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com) Received: from kcmgwp02.corp.sprint.com (kcmgwp02 [10.185.6.93]) by damgwp01.corp.sprint.com (Switch-2.1.3/Switch-2.1.0) with ESMTP id f6AJMQD25016 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:22:26 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kcopmp01.corp.sprint.com (kcopmp01m.corp.sprint.com [10.74.2.72]) by kcmgwp02.corp.sprint.com (Switch-2.0.2/Switch-2.0.2) with ESMTP id f6AJ9DZ16521 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:09:13 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by kcopmp01.corp.sprint.com (8.9.3 (PHNE_18546)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA12166 for ; Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:09:12 -0500 (CDT) From: steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:09:11 -0500 Message-Id: Subject: ie ethernet device driver MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline ;Creation-Date="Tue, 10 Jul 2001 14:09:11 -0500" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I have two machines which still use the ie ethernet driver. It seems to have been disabled, but I'm not sure why. Can someone explain why it has been removed, or perhaps if it got broken, if it is feasible to put it back into -STABLE? The driver is still listed in a number of places including man, LINT, the source, etc. However, it is unusable because it has been removed from isa_compat.h so it cannot be recognized by the OS. In addition, there is an intermittent bug (PR 16214) with the driver. There is a fix for both of these problems here: http://www.jfitz.com/tips/freebsd_etherexpress16.html It modifies the following files, which are the culprits for the current lack of support for the ie driver: /usr/src/sys/dev/ie/if_ie.c and /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.h The fix works great and I've had no issues with the machines running it, even though I put a heavy load on both of them for network services. They shuffle mail, answer DNS queries, and provide ntp and nfs services for months without a problem. These machines and cards are old, granted. But there is a certain pride that I can take in keeping a 486DX/100 and a 386SX/16 as two of the most stable machines in a production environment. Regards, Steven To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message