From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Mar 9 12:06:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA22563 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:06:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id MAA22493 for ; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 12:05:31 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id LAA05121; Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:18:46 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 9 Mar 1998 11:18:46 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: Jos Backus cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: de driver && DS 21143 works on -stable but not -current!? In-Reply-To: <19980309120424.60856@asterix.urc.tue.nl> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message