Date: Fri, 25 Dec 1998 00:43:29 -0700 From: Brett Glass <brett@lariat.org> To: Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>, bruce@zuhause.mn.org (Bruce Albrecht) Cc: mturpin@shadow.spel.com, hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Good, cheap 100BaseT Ethernet cards? Message-ID: <4.1.19981225003737.059813b0@127.0.0.1> In-Reply-To: <199812250046.QAA13840@hub.freebsd.org> References: <13954.22306.733363.415028@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org>
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At 04:46 PM 12/24/98 -0800, Bill Paul wrote: >- Winbond W89C840F cards, such as the Trendware T100-PCIE. This chip > is a half-hearted tulip clone, however it suffers from some extreme > brain damage. I recently discovered that it generates corrupt packets > at 10Mbps half-duplex mode in some cases and I'm still trying to > find a way around this problem. It does appear to work okay in > 10Mbps full-duplex and at 100Mbps modes. If somebody dumps a bunch > of these on your desk, give them a try, but don't expect too much. JDR is selling these as a DFI card; the prices are attractive. One of the big problems for driver writers seems to be that many chips require 32-bit alignment of packets (or parts thereof). How hard would it be to adapt FreeBSD's network stack to satisfy this requirement automatically? --Brett To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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