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Subject: Re: Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver,
 device polling issues :-((]
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my non working card is 82547EI aka 1000CT.

Darren Pilgrim wrote:

>From: Chuck Swiger
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>>People who have em NICs, and who do not have problems, probably do not
>>report regularly that their Intel 10/100/1000 NIC works fine, even
>>though it does, at least for them.  I've got a dozen or so machines
>>with that hardware, and I haven't seen any problems with them.
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>I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people are
>(not) having success.  As em(4) supports an entire family of products,
>rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have quirks or other
>gotchas the driver needs to address.  It certainly wouldn't be the first
>occurance of revision-specific bugs.
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