Date: Mon, 12 Aug 1996 20:21:15 +0000 From: Matt Thomas <matt@lkg.dec.com> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: New de driver alpha testers wanted Message-ID: <199608122021.UAA16281@whydos.lkg.dec.com>
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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
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