Date: Tue, 8 Oct 1996 09:43:27 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.org (FreeBSD-current users) Cc: jake@said.org (Jake Dias) Subject: Re: 3Com PCI 3c590 Defective Message. ENOUGH! Message-ID: <199610080743.JAA19626@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610072311.AAA05817@home.said.org> from Jake Dias at "Oct 8, 96 00:11:50 am"
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As Jake Dias wrote: > Someone suggested that only a small number of early cards _really_ had this > problem so the test can be removed and further that really the test is > wrong anyway. No, it should not go away. 3Com explicitly requests all driver writers to issue a message of this kind if they detect the broken adapter, since there's no usable software workaround. However, somebody should fix the test so that only broken cards actually emit the message. ;-) -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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