From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Aug 12 17:23:13 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id RAA16223 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:23:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail11.digital.com (mail11.digital.com [192.208.46.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA16201 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 17:23:00 -0700 (PDT) Received: from muggsy.lkg.dec.com by mail11.digital.com (8.7.5/UNX 1.2/1.0/WV) id UAA17045; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:16:26 -0400 (EDT) Received: from whydos.lkg.dec.com by muggsy.lkg.dec.com (5.65/DEC-Ultrix/4.3) with SMTP id AA11026; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:16:22 -0400 Received: from localhost.lkg.dec.com (localhost.lkg.dec.com [127.0.0.1]) by whydos.lkg.dec.com (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id UAA16281 for ; Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:21:16 GMT Message-Id: <199608122021.UAA16281@whydos.lkg.dec.com> X-Authentication-Warning: whydos.lkg.dec.com: Host localhost.lkg.dec.com didn't use HELO protocol X-Mailer: exmh version 1.6.5 12/11/95 To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: New de driver alpha testers wanted Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:21:15 +0000 From: Matt Thomas Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk What's in this driver to be tested? Only one new feature ... Most cards shipped that are based on the 21140 (etc) have enough information encoding in the serial eeprom to that the generic Win96/WNT/Novell drivers can use the card is each of its modes. I'm completing a de driver which will be able to use same information to achieve the same flexibility. Such that it should support new cards automagically. This has caused a significant rewrite of major portions of the configuration logic. Even better, the driver is starting to shrink in size again. I'm specifically looking for those with non-SMC and non-DEC 2114x based cards. Also, the autosense logic for 21040 cards has been enhanced so that it detect a loss of link pulses (or carrier on sends) and try to sense the new media. (ie. it should be able to switch from UTP to BNC and back automatically). Also, if you can test 10baseT full-duplex I'd also be interested in hearing from you. Note that this work is still quite new but it should allow even better support of new cards in the future (note that this will mean that multiport cards will be supported with no extra effort). If you are interested and not concerned about having your system panic, please send me some mail! -- Matt Thomas Internet: matt@3am-software.com 3am Software Foundry WWW URL: http://www.3am-software.com/bio/matt.html Westford, MA Disclaimer: I disavow all knowledge of this message