Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 13:38:42 -0500 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Luigi Rizzo <luigi@labinfo.iet.unipi.it> Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970403133840.00af2770@etinc.com>
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At 07:03 PM 4/3/97 +0200, Luigi Rizzo wrote: >> It seems to me, that the fact that the most popular driver for FreeBSD > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >you mean the "ed" driver ? :) > Sorry...most popular PCI driver....... Although at this point I believe that the problems I am having have more to do with NFS than the de driver. Alas, the plans to seriously promote FreeBSD that we had clearly have to go on hold..... Dennis >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/ >_____________________________|______________________________________ > > Emerging Technologies, Inc. Router cards for BSD/OS, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OPenBSD and Linux Standalone Routers Bandwidth Allocation/Limiter Manager http://www.etinc.com sales@etinc.com (516) 271-4525
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