From owner-freebsd-current Sun Mar 29 20:18:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id TAA13736 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:56:23 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from methi.lcs.mit.edu (root@methi.lcs.mit.edu [18.111.0.211]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id TAA13283 for ; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 19:54:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from beng@methi.lcs.mit.edu) Received: from methi.lcs.mit.edu (beng@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by methi.lcs.mit.edu (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id PAA01816; Sun, 29 Mar 1998 15:38:18 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199803292038.PAA01816@methi.lcs.mit.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.0.1 12/23/97 To: dg@root.com cc: Nathan Dorfman , current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: VX driver in current acting up? In-reply-to: Your message of "Sat, 28 Mar 1998 22:24:04 PST." <199803290624.WAA01177@implode.root.com> From: Benjamin Greenwald X-Sender: beng@lcs.mit.edu Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 29 Mar 1998 15:38:18 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > >> I'm more inclined to believe that the driver is broken, but it could be > >> either. > > > >Is it ever going to be fixed? Is there not enough demand? I would fix > >it if someone would throw me a clue as to how :-) > > Someone mentioned recently that they were working on a rewrite that will > use the advanced (e.g. DMA) features, so perhaps the new version will fix > the problems of the current driver. That "someone" is me, and I just got the rest of the technical docs from 3Com earlier this week. The fact of the matter is that the driver is so ill-suited for the card at this point that it doesn't suprise me in the least there would be these sorts of problems. -Ben Greenwald > > -DG > > David Greenman > Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message