Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2001 15:28:15 +1030 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> Cc: Mike Smith <msmith@FreeBSD.ORG>, dg@root.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: if_fxp driver info Message-ID: <20010125152815.K44155@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.0.20010124170245.03bf6140@mail.etinc.com>; from dennis@etinc.com on Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 05:08:16PM -0500 References: <Your <200101232007.MAA18988@implode.root.com> <200101232033.f0NKXHS01892@mass.dis.org> <5.0.0.25.0.20010124170245.03bf6140@mail.etinc.com>
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On Wednesday, 24 January 2001 at 17:08:16 -0500, Dennis wrote: > >> >>> I'll look into the Linux driver, however, and see if it has anything >>> useful in it. Historically the Linux Pro/100+ driver has totally sucked and >>> was chalk-full of magic numbers being anded and ored. >> >> That's "chock full", and you're confusing the Becker driver (bad) with >> the Intel-supplied driver (slightly less bad). > > The intel driver seems to cover all the bases and has some nice glue > routines for determining the part and features available. We recently did some testing of these drivers at my company. We found both drivers to be very bad, and the consensus was that the Intel driver was worse. We were not able to keep a link up under load for more than a few hours. > I havent tested it under load, but I wonder if intel would consider > supporting it if someone ported it over to freebsd? they have drivers for > just about every other major OS except BSD. it would be nice if the driver > was updated BEFORE cards and MBs that dont work started showing up on the > loading dock. Every time I get a shipment we have to hold our breath until > we try one out. I've come in in the middle of this discussion, so maybe there's something I don't know, but on the same hardware and running FreeBSD, I had no problems. Why should we want to replace the driver with something which doesn't work well? Greg -- Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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