Date: Thu, 1 Jun 2006 07:27:52 -0700 (PDT) From: Danial Thom <danial_thom@yahoo.com> To: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Recommendation for 1000BASE-SX card? Message-ID: <20060601142752.34875.qmail@web33301.mail.mud.yahoo.com> In-Reply-To: <447EF7A3.7040704@mac.com>
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No, I use drivers that are good. I don't feel the need to fix all that is broken in an OS; a good engineer finds what works and what doesn't and adjusts accordingly. Intel controllers are better than broadcom controllers anyways, so simply avoiding broadcom controllers is the strategy of choice. DT --- Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> wrote: > Danial Thom wrote: > > Also keep in mind that the bge driver is a > piece > > of crap; driver quality is a much more > telling > > factor in these free OS's than the card in > many > > cases. The EM and FXP are the only drivers > worth > > anything (mainly because neither were written > by > > mass-driver mill man Bill Paul). > > No doubt you've written a truly remarkable > replacement driver which your email > is too small to contain. Unlike Fermat, > however, you've presumably hidden the > proof under the bridge where only trolls may > go. > > I'm tempted to set a Followup-to: header to > -chat or maybe /dev/null... > > -- > -Chuck > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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