From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue May 6 14:24:21 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id OAA06095 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:24:21 -0700 (PDT) Received: from lestat.nas.nasa.gov (lestat.nas.nasa.gov [129.99.50.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id OAA06089 for ; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:24:20 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lestat.nas.nasa.gov (8.7.5/8.6.12) with SMTP id OAA21194; Tue, 6 May 1997 14:11:52 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199705062111.OAA21194@lestat.nas.nasa.gov> X-Authentication-Warning: lestat.nas.nasa.gov: Host localhost [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Jaye Mathisen Cc: dennis , Tim Tsai , hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Reply-To: Jason Thorpe From: Jason Thorpe Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 14:11:51 -0700 Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 6 May 1997 13:35:18 -0700 (PDT) Jaye Mathisen wrote: > While I rarely agree with dennis, he's dead on with this one. I bought > 30-40 de cards for my 25 or so servers, now only to find it apparently a > dead-end driver, and the Intel card being the card-de-jour (or however > that's spelled). ...it's not a dead-end driver. The most recent de code from Matt supports tons of these cards. I don't understand the issue people have with this... So, you have to run a more up-to-date version of the OS to deal with a certain set of cards (although I haven't seen the most recent "de" code go into FreeBSD yet...) Dunno ... the notion of kernel updates don't seem to bother Linux users... But, then again, they rarely have a choice, eh? :-) Jason R. Thorpe thorpej@nas.nasa.gov NASA Ames Research Center Home: 408.866.1912 NAS: M/S 258-6 Work: 415.604.0935 Moffett Field, CA 94035 Pager: 415.428.6939