Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:53:25 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, jgreco@solaria.sol.net, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Subject: Re: Status of 21140AC driver ? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970213135323.00c0aa90@etinc.com>
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At 02:27 PM 2/13/97 +0100, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >Hi, > >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. > >The machine is not completely dead though, it receives and responds >properly to pings, arp requests etc. Maybe there is some mismatch with >packet sizes (nfs might use maximum-sized packets) ? > >Also, a problem still remains in that I am unable to use the same >driver for both the -AB and the -AC ... > >Help/comments appreciated Yes...this is a big problem. Our supplier has started shipping the -AC chips, and they dont work. Dennis
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