Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 11:59:12 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Narvi <narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee>, Joerg Wunsch <joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970403115910.00b89450@etinc.com>
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At 09:10 AM 4/3/97 -0500, dennis wrote: >At 10:23 AM 4/3/97 +0300, Narvi wrote: >> >> >>On Wed, 2 Apr 1997, J Wunsch wrote: >> >>> As dennis wrote: >>> >>> > Is the driver that you send me directly for 2.1.7 (that worked >>> > beautifully) in 2.2.1R? If not, WHY NOT! >>> >>> No need to shout. We aren't deaf exactly. >>> >>> Since Matt released it _after_ 2.2 has been cut. I've got a very >>> explicit message from Matt when i've been asking him earlier (right in >>> time to get something into 2.2 still) about a new version, that he >>> considered the stuff that sneaked into NetBSD by that time too buggy >>> to see it officially in FreeBSD. That's why we've been integrating >>> the little hack still to make at least the DE21140A supported. We >>> originally deferred the inclusion of this patch in anticipation of the >>> new driver version. It seems to me, that the fact that the most popular driver for FreeBSD doesn't work is a sufficient condition to hold up the release until it does. What you have now is a release that was supposed to be a "great saviour" feature-wise that is fundamentally unusable in its released form for a large number of users..... Dennis
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