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From: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com>
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Subject: Re: Status of 21140AC driver ?
To: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it (Luigi Rizzo)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 12:53:18 -0600 (CST)
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In-Reply-To: <199702131327.OAA22041@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> from Luigi Rizzo at "Feb 13, 97 02:27:07 pm"
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> what is the status of the 21140-AC driver ? I have a lab of brand
> new diskless machines, running 2.1.6 -- The machines with the
> 21140-AB work fine with the stock 2.1.6 if_de.c , the ones with
> 21140-AC do not. I have remade a kernel with the if_de.c taken from
> netbsd; now the old cards seem not to work, and the new cards work fine
> up to the point where I try to access the nfs-mounted filesystem (as
> also Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> experienced.

  I've tried limiting the r/w size to 1024 as suggsted by the handbook
and that seems to have solved the locked up problem but performance was
terrible so I went back to the ISA NE2000 cards.

  Tim