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Subject: Re: Q about 100Mb ether cards
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In-Reply-To: <199703131540.HAA00220@X2.root.com> from "David Greenman" at Mar 13, 97 07:40:36 am
From: "Mikhail A. Sokolov" <mishania@demos.su>
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>    Yes, this is a known bug in the "rev 1" version of the 82557 chip. The
> receiver goes dead whenever it gets certain types of garbage. It should be
> fixed in "rev 2" versions, but I haven't verified this.

You mean we can threw rev. 1 away ? Btw, what's the methodics to determine
if the beast I am buying in local store is rev. 1 or 2? Re to the situation 
hub reboots and ethernet card kinda 'freeze', - is there any possibility to 
implement some kind of software reset into the driver? The problem the machine
is 50km away from here :-(
> 
> -DG
> 
> David Greenman
> Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project

-mishania