From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 13 10:59:13 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA00989 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:59:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from mail.crl.com (mail.crl.com [165.113.1.22]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA00962 for ; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:59:03 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com) by mail.crl.com with SMTP id AA11114 (5.65c/IDA-1.5 for ); Thu, 13 Feb 1997 10:58:13 -0800 Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA12268; Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:58:20 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970213135323.00c0aa90@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 13:53:25 -0500 To: Luigi Rizzo , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: dennis Subject: Re: Status of 21140AC driver ? Cc: tim@futuresouth.com, jgreco@solaria.sol.net, thorpej@nas.nasa.gov Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 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