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To: ccsanady@iastate.edu (Chris Csanady)
Date: Wed, 7 Jun 1995 01:10:27 -0500 (CDT)
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I'm used 509's with FreeBSD very reliably since 2.0R (I know, I've been lucky under 2.0R)
but they do work quite well under 2.0.5A and April snap relese.  


> 
> hello.  anyway, i have a  problem.  currently im running NetBSD, and
> am planning on switching to FreeBSD, but i need fast and reliable
> networking.  i heard that the current driver in FreeBSD was not very
> stable..  anyways, i was wondering, how hard it would be to port
> the ep driver from netbsd?  it looks as though they were at one point
> the same driver even..  
> 
> if this would be trivial, could some kind person help me out?  i have
> never done any work with kernel/driver stuff before. :(
> 
> thanks,
> chris ccsanady (ccsanady@iastate.edu)
> 
>