From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 18 9:22:21 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E77BB37B413 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:22:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from newnet.co.uk (newnet.co.uk [212.87.80.12]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2496C43E75 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 09:22:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Received: from BONG (perry-gw-nat1-eth1.router.trident-uk.co.uk [81.3.89.49]) by newnet.co.uk (8.12.3/8.12.3) with SMTP id g9IGLbtS020005; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:21:37 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk) Message-ID: <002b01c276c2$46fd17c0$3264a8c0@BONG> Reply-To: "Jamie Heckford" From: "Jamie Heckford" To: , "John Polstra" References: <001501c275eb$a9328560$3264a8c0@BONG> <200210181607.g9IG7eGK028163@vashon.polstra.com> Subject: Re: Compaq GIGA NIC Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 17:20:21 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1106 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1106 X-Newnet-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > So you ran into a driver bug, and you describe it by saying "The > broadcom chips perform terribly!" ??? No wonder there's so much > misinformation on the net. Sheesh, try to remember that this stuff > gets archived! People read it and believe it, and nobody benefits > when it's just not true. > Ok .... apologies - here's my corrected version: The last time *I* used Ethernet cards based on the broadcom chipset the driver caused me massive problems. It was terrible. I hated it. I switched to intels. This solved my problem. .... IMHO Sorry for my earlier post.... and before something flies back yes I did understand your reply ;) J -- ____________________________________________________ Message scanned for viruses and dangerous content by and believed to be clean To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message