Date: Tue, 06 May 1997 11:57:05 -0400 From: dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Tim Tsai <tim@futuresouth.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: if_de.c ???? Message-ID: <3.0.32.19970506115700.00b0fa00@etinc.com>
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At 09:07 AM 5/6/97 -0500, you wrote: >On Tue, May 06, 1997 at 08:51:08AM -0400, Dennis wrote: >> At 03:06 PM 5/5/97 -0700, you wrote: >> >On Mon, 05 May 1997 17:54:02 -0400 >> > dennis <dennis@etinc.com> wrote: >> > >> > > Is there (yet) a fix for the newer 21040-AC parts without having to >> > > do the if_media hack in 2.2.1? >> > >> >What do you mean "hack"? if_media is the only way you can possibly >> >represent all of the media options on those parts. >> >> Its a "hack" because the user has to hack his O/S to make it work. Its simply >> not feasible to have a customer do this. > > I had no trouble incorporating if_de.c, but ifconfig support is "broken" >in 2.2 I believe (I mean broken as in the internal net structure has >changed enough that it isn't trivial to make it work). I think Matt >Thomas's document is based on 2.1.X. I did not test to see whether the >2.2 ifconfig already support the media options. > > After 4 months of fighting if_de.c and losing that support everytime we >upgrade the kernel, I am just going to buy the Intel boards and see if I >can sell the 21140-AC boards to people who don't run FreeBSD. Of course >now that I say this in public somebody is going to go incorporate the >if_de code in the FreeBSD kernel.. :-) Nah, the ppl that care have already switched to the card of the moment, the Intel Pro/100B. This is a BIG image blow to FreeBSD...after all the hoopla about how great the if_de card/driver was in '96. Gotta get that NT driver going! Dennis
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