From owner-freebsd-stable Thu Jul 5 12:14:35 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from damgwp01.corp.sprint.com (parker2.sprint.com [199.14.91.106]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2CF1A37B403 for ; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 12:14:32 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com) Received: from kcmgwp02.corp.sprint.com (kcmgwp02 [10.185.6.93]) by damgwp01.corp.sprint.com (Switch-2.0.2/Switch-2.0.2) with ESMTP id f65JR5022395; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:27:05 -0500 (CDT) Received: from kcopmp01.corp.sprint.com (kcopmp01m.corp.sprint.com [10.74.2.72]) by kcmgwp02.corp.sprint.com (Switch-2.0.2/Switch-2.0.2) with ESMTP id f65JE3f22346; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:14:03 -0500 (CDT) Received: from localhost (root@localhost) by kcopmp01.corp.sprint.com (8.8.6 (PHNE_17190)/8.8.6) with ESMTP id OAA09700; Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:14:02 -0500 (CDT) From: steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com X-OpenMail-Hops: 1 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:14:01 -0500 Message-Id: Subject: RE: ie ethernet device driver MIME-Version: 1.0 To: ale@unixmania.net, steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="openmail-part-48f87fe9-00000001" Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --openmail-part-48f87fe9-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline ;Creation-Date="Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:14:01 -0500" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're right. The driver is still listed in a number of places including man, LINT, the source, etc. However, it is unusable because it has been removed from isa_compat.h so it cannot be recognized by the OS. In addition, there is an intermittent bug (PR 16214) with the driver. There is a fix available that fixes both of these problems: http://www.jfitz.com/tips/freebsd_etherexpress16.html It modifies the following files, which are the culprits for the current lack of support for the ie driver: /usr/src/sys/dev/ie/if_ie.c and /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.h The fix works great and I've had no issues with the machines running it, even though I put a fairly heavy load on both of them for network services. Steven -----Original Message----- From: ale [mailto:ale@unixmania.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:27 PM To: steve.d.meacham Cc: ale Subject: Re: ie ethernet device driver On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:35:51AM -0500, steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com wrote: > I have two machines which still use the ie ethernet driver. It seems > to have been removed from -STABLE for a while now, but I'm not sure why. mmm.. are you sure ? I ask because I both see "device ie0 ...." in /sys/i386/conf/LINT and "man 4 ie" works. I've not tried to compile a kernel with this, but it seems to me device ie is still available. my box is 4.3-stable hope this help :-) -- bye! Ale ale@unixmania.net --openmail-part-48f87fe9-00000001-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message