From owner-freebsd-hackers Sat Mar 10 12:44: 6 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from et-gw.etinc.com (et-gw.etinc.com [207.252.1.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D705037B718 for ; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 12:44:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Received: from dbsys.etinc.com (dbsys.etinc.com [207.252.1.18]) by et-gw.etinc.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id PAA85786; Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:56:13 GMT (envelope-from dennis@etinc.com) Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.0.20010310155434.0329e670@mail.etinc.com> X-Sender: dennis@mail.etinc.com X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 15:59:14 -0500 To: Tim , hackers@FreeBSD.ORG From: Dennis Subject: Re: if_fxp - the real point In-Reply-To: <20010310143739.A3867@futuresouth.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 03:37 PM 03/10/2001, Tim wrote: >Is there a point of contact at Intel that we could all send e-mail to or >even send a formal letter? I am sure my buying 50 or so boards a year >isn't going to make a dent at Intel's bottom line, but considering how >their stock is doing lately and if we all contribute... Um, I dont think your going to get intel to change its policy The policy exists for a reason. Plus, they are already selling lots of boards with the existing driver, so how many more will they sell? the delta isnt enough for them to put someone on the case. What will really get them is some press on how bad their drivers are. Their eepro100 driver for linux is unusable under load. and from what I've hard their gigabit driver isnt much better. Letters dont do anything. its all about image. Dennis >Thanks, > >Tim > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message