From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 22 21:19:14 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id VAA27921 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:19:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id VAA27914 for ; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:19:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.4/8.6.12) with SMTP id VAA15374; Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:19:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 22 Jan 1997 21:19:00 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Naoki Hamada cc: dnelson@emsphone.com, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Erroneous Ierrs from vx0 In-Reply-To: <199701230130.KAA07619@sirius.sbl.cl.nec.co.jp> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, 23 Jan 1997, Naoki Hamada wrote: > Doug White wrote: > >On Wed, 22 Jan 1997, Dan Nelson wrote: > >>In the last episode (Jan 22), Doug White said: > >>> I just purchased a 3com Etherlink XL PCI ethenet card and it's working > >>> great on 2.2-BETA, except for one thing: > > Note that current support for 3COM Etherlink XL PCI cards are only > experimental because 3COM do not provide their technical > reference. Though they are capable of transfer data in full bus-mastering > mode, the vx0 driver does PIO for now. So their performance is poor > despite their potentially high capability. Is the de driver any better? (this is next on my list -- a Kingston 21140) Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major