Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 19:57:59 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: HAMADA Naoki <hamada@astec.co.jp> Cc: mike@smith.net.au, smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com, sbabkin@dcn.att.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 3c905 driver status (was Re: NIC drivers) Message-ID: <199807270257.TAA13670@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 27 Jul 1998 11:11:50 %2B0900." <199807270211.LAA27031@stone.astec.co.jp>
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First, the issues inre: the old '509 driver; > >> smoergrd@oslo.geco-prakla.slb.com writes: > >> >Believe me, it still sucks. Search the archives (both the mailing list > >> >archives and the PR database) for "no buffer space", and/or "ep0". > >> >Basically, the driver is fine for telnet and mail, but wedges under > >> >sustained load. I can get it to hang without ever going above 20 kBps > >> >(160 kbps). Gimme an Intel EtherExpress. > >> > >> I carefully looked through the source code to find a bug which results > >> mbuf leaks. Could you try this patch? > > > >Have you guys gone any further on this one? Is the patch OK, or broken? > > Sorry guys, this patch is wrong. ERR_RX_INCOMPLETE (which should be > renamed to `RX_INCOMPLETE') is an indication of not an error but an > incoming packet, so you must not remove the incoming packet. OK. Any other ideas? Now, for the 905: > NetBSD's ep driver seems to have some kluge for locking problems, but > now I want to spend my time to support new 3C905B adapters... It would be good if we could have a quick headcount of people working on driver for these cards. I know that Bill Paul is just about ready to release, and there was at least one other individual that was reputedly "just about ready to go into testing" or similar. Can you folks pipe up and perhaps coordinate so that we end up with just one (preferred) driver? -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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