Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 11:29:59 -0500 (CDT) From: Joel Ray Holveck <joelh@gnu.org> To: sbabkin@dcn.att.com Cc: mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: NIC drivers Message-ID: <199807091629.LAA04740@detlev.UUCP> In-Reply-To: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B5A@dcn71.dcn.att.com> (sbabkin@dcn.att.com) References: <C50B6FBA632FD111AF0F0000C0AD71EEFF8B5A@dcn71.dcn.att.com>
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>>> Last I heard, the 509 driver was buggy. (According to LINT, it >>> still is.) When I last tried it about eight months ago, it was >>> still buggy. Cursory tests now (I've got one in this box, on the >>> same LAN as an NE2000) indicate that it may still be broken. >> Yes; the driver is not spectacular, and neither is the card. > It worked fine for me in '95-'97 in my machine at work. Yes, it > occasionally loses packets under high load but it's still faster > than NE2000 (although I agree that the card is somewhat > pathological). It can easily handle FTP at full Ethernet speed > (1.1MB/s) in an old 486. Although I don't know about the current > state of the driver. There was a period (early '95) when packet loss > led to the hang of the card and that's the reason why it was marked > as "buggy" in LINT at that time. This was fixed but this comment > just was not cleaned up. There was the same problem somewhere in '96 > when David Greenman had changed the way the watchdog routines are > called for network drivers, but after this driver was changed > according to the new way it worked again. Hmmm... What version of FreeBSD are you using? I'd like to get mine working; you appear to know what's going on. Happy hacking, joelh -- Joel Ray Holveck - joelh@gnu.org - http://www.wp.com/piquan Fourth law of programming: Anything that can go wrong wi sendmail: segmentation violation - core dumped To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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