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Date:      Wed, 08 Jul 1998 13:34:31 -0700
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org>
Cc:        mike@smith.net.au, fschan@capgemini.com.sg, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: NIC drivers 
Message-ID:  <199807082034.NAA00362@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 08 Jul 1998 11:29:32 CDT." <199807081629.LAA02208@detlev.UUCP> 

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> >> Just curious, how do one find the neccesary info to write a driver of
> >> say 3c509 fro FreeBSD?
> > You mean like, eg. /sys/i386/isa/if_ep.c?  (The 3c509 driver.)
> 
> Last I heard, the 509 driver was buggy.  (According to LINT, it still
> is.)  When I last tried it about eight months ago, it was still buggy.
> Cursory tests now (I've got one in this box, on the same LAN as an
> NE2000) indicate that it may still be broken.

Yes; the driver is not spectacular, and neither is the card.
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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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