From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Jun 25 16:10:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA18771 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:10:19 -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 QAA18615 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 16:09:50 -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 TAA07699 for ; Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:09:38 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from bright@hotjobs.com) X-Authentication-Warning: bright.ny.otec.com: bright owned process doing -bs Date: Thu, 25 Jun 1998 19:09:38 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein X-Sender: bright@bright.ny.otec.com To: 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. c'mon... say it.. SCUUUUUZI! :) it just feels better don't it? :) > > 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. now, that's odd, all the linux boxen here at work are fine at 100mbps, maybe you have them set in some bad mode, or mismatched settings on the hubs? i don't know much about the stuff, but i know they work on the linux boxes. > 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... i just don't trust non home built PCs, you can never exactly what hardware you want/need on them. home grown is much better, and fun. > > 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. i'm going to, didn't want to bug him, be he did say he was close to being done several months ago on the lists. thank you, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message