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Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 23:49:22 -0400 (EDT)
From: "Joe \"Marcus\" Clarke" <marcus@miami.edu>
Subject: Re: DEC Etherworks (DE204) if_le and memory portal size
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To: Gardner Buchanan <gbuchana@rogers.wave.ca>
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I've been using the le driver for a DEC205 for a while, and I am very
satisfied.  However, I have not been able to set the portal size above 2K.
If someone can figure out how to do this, I'd love to know.

Joe Clarke

On Wed, 15 Jul 1998, Gardner Buchanan wrote:

> Hello:
> 
> I just picked up a couple of DEC DE204 cards and have been using
> them with the le driver.  They seem to work fine but I have a couple
> of random questions:
> 
> The card can be configured to offer a memory portal of 2K, 32K or
> 64K.  The manual page, le(4), doesn't offer any guidance in choosing
> a portal size.  Looking at the code, the comments say that the
> portal is being forced to 2K regardless of how the card was
> configured.  Does that seem correct?
> 
> I haven't heard much talk of this driver.  Is it one of those really
> solid, well supported ones, like ed, or more one of those "still
> thought to have bugs sometimes for some people" drivers like ep?
> Are there other satisfied users of this driver out there?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> 
> ============================================================
> Gardner Buchanan                   <gbuchana@rogers.wave.ca>
> Ottawa, ON             FreeBSD: Where you want to go. Today.
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