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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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