From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 11:08:23 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA24028 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:08:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bright.ny.otec.com (bright.ny.otec.com [209.3.16.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA24003 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 11:08:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by bright.ny.otec.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA06966; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 14:07:52 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.ny.otec.com: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 14:07:52 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.ny.otec.com To: Mike Smith cc: Benjamin Greenwald , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of new VX driver In-Reply-To: <199806251618.JAA03480@antipodes.cdrom.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hehe, not my fault, thrust into a workplace where everyone runs linux, they didn't realize what kinda hardware they have. my "stock" pc came with: pnp soundcard -> (kissing Luigi's feet right now, thank you! driver kicks butt!) atapi cdrom and ide harddrive EWWWWW.... and that icky 905b card.... heh, be careful when you buy Dell folks :) nice monitors though. actually kinda fast machine, just "sorta" budget equipment. oh and another affliction... we are planning to go to NIS+ and i'm quite sure freebsd doesn't have client support yet... hmmm... maybe i could convince them to let me be the NIS master on my 10bT card :) *sigh* -Alfred On Thu, 25 Jun 1998, Mike Smith wrote: > > i would like to beta test this driver if possible, we have a lot of 905b > > cards here at work and i've had to go to a yucky tulip based thingy. > > > > i would like to be at 100mbps :) > > You should have bought EtherExpress Pro's instead, either the first or > second time around. 8) > > >From what Donald Becker has said about the 905's, you may still want to > do that.... > > -- > \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith > \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au > \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org > \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message