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From: Pedro A M Vazquez <vazquez@IQM.Unicamp.BR>
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Subject: Re: Status of 21140AC driver ?
To: tim@futuresouth.com (Tim Tsai)
Date: Thu, 13 Feb 1997 17:35:05 -0300 (EST)
Cc: luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
In-Reply-To: <199702131853.MAA23776@shell.futuresouth.com> from "Tim Tsai" at Feb 13, 97 12:53:18 pm
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Tim Tsai said:
> 
> > 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.
> 
Just to add a point to the curve: the Compex cards with -AC chips
work fine at 10Mbps under 2.1.0 and 2.1.5 but don't work at 100Mbps.
I've not tried these cards under 2.1.6 or later releases.

Pedro