From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 3 09:56:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA05800 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:56:42 -0800 (PST) Received: from labinfo.iet.unipi.it (labinfo.iet.unipi.it [131.114.9.5]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id JAA05749 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 09:56:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (luigi@localhost) by labinfo.iet.unipi.it (8.6.5/8.6.5) id TAA00593; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:03:19 +0200 From: Luigi Rizzo Message-Id: <199704031703.TAA00593@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? To: dennis@etinc.com (dennis) Date: Thu, 3 Apr 1997 19:03:18 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970403115910.00b89450@etinc.com> from "dennis" at Apr 3, 97 11:58:53 am X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL23] Content-Type: text Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk > It seems to me, that the fact that the most popular driver for FreeBSD ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ you mean the "ed" driver ? :) Seriously, the 21x4x cards are nice and cheap (considering their performance), but I suspect there are far more NE2000 clones around (both PCI and ISA) than the total of other network cards. What you say (delay the release of 2.2 until we had a stable "de" driver) would have only been possible if there were someone paid for fixing the driver with some reasonable deadline. Nothing like that in our project. Cheers Luigi -----------------------------+-------------------------------------- Luigi Rizzo | Dip. di Ingegneria dell'Informazione email: luigi@iet.unipi.it | Universita' di Pisa tel: +39-50-568533 | via Diotisalvi 2, 56126 PISA (Italy) fax: +39-50-568522 | http://www.iet.unipi.it/~luigi/ _____________________________|______________________________________