From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Mar 30 16:51:50 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1438037B401 for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:51:50 -0800 (PST) Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 523F043FBF for ; Sun, 30 Mar 2003 16:51:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from des@ofug.org) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id C01C75308; Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:51:47 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: David Gilbert From: des@ofug.org (Dag-Erling =?iso-8859-1?q?Sm=F8rgrav?=) Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 02:51:47 +0200 In-Reply-To: <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net> (David Gilbert's message of "Sun, 30 Mar 2003 15:49:26 -0500") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.090015 (Oort Gnus v0.15) Emacs/21.2 References: <007c01c2e3ef$3483d8a0$0229c80a@abtec412> <20030306145022.GA31433@krion> <16002.16342.476020.510769@canoe.velocet.net> <200303301145.12141.wes@softweyr.com> <16007.22614.840137.999671@canoe.velocet.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: [hackers] Re: Realtek X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2003 00:51:51 -0000 David Gilbert writes: > But ... I'm not sure that their performance is largely better than the > rl's. The driver writer for the rl maligns the card in comments for > requiring alignment (and thus copying). There are far worse hacks in > the dc code ... with the comment that some dc implementations are > worse than others. Not to mention the fact that over the past year or so people have been repeatedly picking the dc driver apart and putting it back together with some bits missing, so for some cards it has gone from working perfectly, to getting the MAC address wrong but working fine after you manually set it, to plainly refusing to attach to the card. My laptop is now practically reduced to a doorstop since -STABLE doesn't have Cardbus support and -CURRENT refuses to attach to the NIC. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav - des@ofug.org