From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Apr 3 10:41:32 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id KAA08000 for hackers-outgoing; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:41:32 -0800 (PST) Received: from etinc.com (et-gw-fr1.etinc.com [204.141.244.98]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id KAA07982 for ; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 10:41:22 -0800 (PST) Received: from ntws (ntws.etinc.com [204.141.95.142]) by etinc.com (8.8.3/8.6.9) with SMTP id NAA02871; Thu, 3 Apr 1997 13:44:15 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <3.0.32.19970403133840.00af2770@etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@etinc.com X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 (32) Date: Thu, 03 Apr 1997 13:38:42 -0500 To: Luigi Rizzo From: dennis Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? Cc: narvi@haldjas.folklore.ee, joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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