From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 16:03:27 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA17264 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:03:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from mail.atipa.com (altrox.atipa.com [208.128.22.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA17141 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:02:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@atipa.com) Received: (qmail 23465 invoked by uid 1017); 25 Jun 1998 21:59:30 -0000 Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 15:59:30 -0600 (MDT) From: Atipa To: Alfred Perlstein cc: Mike Smith , Benjamin Greenwald , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of new VX driver In-Reply-To: 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 > atapi cdrom and ide harddrive EWWWWW.... hey, ultra DMA drives are really nice these days, and not nearly as noisy. > and that icky 905b card.... disgusting. I do not know if they changed the card recently, but I have about 25 of those cards right now that don't work for beans. They ifconfig fine (under Linux, BSD, and 95), and everthing thinks they are fine, including the 3Com diagnostic software. But none of them will ping. I get no activity on the cards or on the hubs. We are dropping theses from our pricelist, and will be be replacing them w/ Etherexpress Pros. > heh, be careful when you buy Dell folks :) Wasn't there some Dell/3Com fiasco that resulted in speculations about market share and profit that took down both their stock prices? Can't remember the details... > 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 :) There is work underway on -CURRENT for this, but I do not think it is currently usable. Ask wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) for an update. Kevin To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message