From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Oct 18 18:28:12 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 ED4AC37B401 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:28:10 -0700 (PDT) Received: from wall.polstra.com (wall-gw.polstra.com [206.213.73.130]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1382343E77 for ; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:28:10 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@polstra.com) Received: from vashon.polstra.com (vashon.polstra.com [206.213.73.13]) by wall.polstra.com (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id g9J1S6x40891; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:28:06 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp@vashon.polstra.com) Received: (from jdp@localhost) by vashon.polstra.com (8.12.5/8.12.5/Submit) id g9J1S5EY028704; Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:28:05 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from jdp) Date: Fri, 18 Oct 2002 18:28:05 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200210190128.g9J1S5EY028704@vashon.polstra.com> To: stable@freebsd.org From: John Polstra Cc: jamie@jamiesdomain.org.uk Subject: Re: Compaq GIGA NIC In-Reply-To: <002b01c276c2$46fd17c0$3264a8c0@BONG> References: <001501c275eb$a9328560$3264a8c0@BONG> <200210181607.g9IG7eGK028163@vashon.polstra.com> <002b01c276c2$46fd17c0$3264a8c0@BONG> Organization: Polstra & Co., Seattle, WA 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 In article <002b01c276c2$46fd17c0$3264a8c0@BONG>, Jamie Heckford wrote: > 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 ;) Sorry I overreacted. :-} Out of curiosity, what was the platform on which you had so much trouble with the Broadcom chips? In particular: what kind of CPU, and was the bus PCI or PCI-X? John -- John Polstra John D. Polstra & Co., Inc. Seattle, Washington USA "Disappointment is a good sign of basic intelligence." -- Chögyam Trungpa To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message