Date: Fri, 19 Nov 1999 21:33:32 -0500 (EST) From: Bill Paul <wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> To: gallatin@cs.duke.edu (Andrew Gallatin) Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Looking for testers... Message-ID: <199911200233.VAA03173@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> In-Reply-To: <14389.64991.509189.203958@grasshopper.cs.duke.edu> from "Andrew Gallatin" at Nov 19, 99 09:00:20 pm
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Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Andrew Gallatin had to walk into mine and say: > Bill Paul writes: > > For those who may not know, I've been tinkering with a new 'tulip clone' > > driver for various PCI ethernet cards. I'm attempting to combine support > > for several tulip like chipsets into a single driver in an attempt to > > reduce code bloat. I've gotten things to where I think they work okay, > > but I'm looking for testers who have FreeBSD-current running with the > > following PCI chipsets: > > YES! Hurray!!!!! You are my hero! I have been suffering under the > if_de driver which utterly fails to grok 100Mb full duplex on all my > 21143 equipped alphas. This news has made my week, my month! Careful. I said that the only 21143 cards I have use MII transceivers. I don't have any cards that use symbol mode and built-in NWAY. The Macronix chips copy the 21143's built-in NWAY pretty closely and they work pretty well, but I don't know how well it works with an actual 21143. I don't know how DEC set up the ethernet in the alphas: if they used an MII transceiver, then it should work okay, but if not you could be in for trouble. I wish I didn't have to say that, but I just don't have the hardware to test with. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (212) 854-6020 | System Manager, Master of Unix-Fu Work: wpaul@ctr.columbia.edu | Center for Telecommunications Research Home: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu | Columbia University, New York City ============================================================================= "It is not I who am crazy; it is I who am mad!" - Ren Hoek, "Space Madness" ============================================================================= To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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