Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:51:47 +0200 From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) To: David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek Message-ID: <xzpof3sgxy4.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no> In-Reply-To: <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net> (David Gilbert's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:26 -0500") References: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> <20030306145022.GA31433@krion> <16002.16342.476020.510769@canoe.velocet.net> <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com> <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net>
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David Gilbert <dgilbert@velocet.ca> writes: > But ... I'm not sure that their performance is largely better than the > rl's. The driver writer for the rl maligns the card in comments for > requiring alignment (and thus copying). There are far worse hacks in > the dc code ... with the comment that some dc implementations are > worse than others. Not to mention the fact that over the past year or so people have been repeatedly picking the dc driver apart and putting it back together with some bits missing, so for some cards it has gone from working perfectly, to getting the MAC address wrong but working fine after you manually set it, to plainly refusing to attach to the card. My laptop is now practically reduced to a doorstop since -STABLE doesn't have Cardbus support and -CURRENT refuses to attach to the NIC. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org
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