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Date:      Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:18:46 -0800 (PST)
From:      Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
To:        Jos Backus <J.G.E.Backus@urc.tue.nl>
Cc:        questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: de driver && DS 21143 works on -stable but not -current!?
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980309111734.5101D-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
In-Reply-To: <19980309120424.60856@asterix.urc.tue.nl>

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On Mon, 9 Mar 1998, Jos Backus wrote:

> I just downloaded and installed the latest committed NetBSD de driver, but it
> still does't work with this Ethernet controller in 10Mbit/UTP mode. The
> version in -stable, however, does.

Odd.  Can you isolate the problematic code?

> Questions: Would anyone have any idea how to go about porting the -stable
> driver to -current? How would I start enabling diagnostics in the -current de
> driver in order to find out why it isn't working (and the -stable one is).

-stable -> -current is rare and an uphill battle  The versions between
-stable and -current should be the same though.

> Then again, as quite a few things have changed between -stable and -current in
> the surrounding environment (the -stable driver gives a bunch of errors), the
> problem may not be in the driver per se :-/

Quite true.  You may want to work with hackers@freebsd.org on this one.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major



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