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Date:      Thu, 25 Jan 2001 10:28:28 -0800
From:      Dustin Harris <dustinh@webtrends.com>
To:        'Doug White' <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu>, Mikhail Kononenko <mikhail@samovar.ru>
Cc:        freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RE: EtherExpress100 on Intel Easton
Message-ID:  <0145F0769FECD411BF8400508BFDF6E4048E80@newman.internal.webtrends.com>

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There is usually a newer eepro100 driver at the maintainer's site than what
is distributed in the kernel source
(ftp://ftp.scyld.com/pub/network/test/eepro100.c).

--dustin

-----Original Message-----
From: Doug White [mailto:dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu]
Sent: Wednesday, January 24, 2001 11:18 PM
To: Mikhail Kononenko
Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: EtherExpress100 on Intel Easton


On Wed, 24 Jan 2001, Mikhail Kononenko wrote:

> Sorry, if this is offtopic here, but I could not get answer from native
> lists...
> 
> Linux kernel-2.2.17 on D815EEAL (with integrated NIC). The driver used:
> eepro100.

Traditionally, the Linux Intel EtherExpress Pro/100 drivers have, quite
frankly, sucked.  This is a known problem with no solution.  This is
counter to FreeBSD, where the fxp driver is one of the best ethernet
drivers in the system :-)

Doug White                    |  FreeBSD: The Power to Serve
dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu     |  www.FreeBSD.org



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