Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2000 00:02:33 +0200 From: Wilko Bulte <wkb@chello.nl> To: Ronald van der Pol <Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl> Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: does FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE support DEC/INTEL 21041? Message-ID: <20000421000233.A8415@yedi.wbnet> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004202331150.25670-100000@sure.surfnet.nl>; from Ronald.vanderPol@surfnet.nl on Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:54:33PM %2B0200 References: <Pine.BSF.4.21.0004202331150.25670-100000@sure.surfnet.nl>
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On Thu, Apr 20, 2000 at 11:54:33PM +0200, Ronald van der Pol wrote: > I am trying to get a Farallon Ethernet card working on FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE. > It has a chip labelled "digital 21041-pb". > > The kernel meesages say: > de0: <Digital 21041 Ethernet> irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 > de0: driver is using old-style compatibility shims > > What does this mean? Is this card supported? It means the driver has not yet been changed to accomodate some changes in the driver API but runs in compatibility mode. This is a sort of reminder to the driver maintainer[s]. Not to worry.. -- Wilko Bulte Powered by FreeBSD http://www.freebsd.org http://www.tcja.nl To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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