Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 20:36:09 +0000 From: "Ian Kallen" <ian@gamespot.com> To: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: ep driver buggy? Message-ID: <199609032029.UAA06631@gamespot.com>
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I've had 3c509's give me no problems whatsoever on two machines I have running freeBSD. Just for kicks, I bought two SMC 10/100baseT cards (the 9332, I think 'twas called) -- those cards were so buggy under Windows95 I _hope_ they are the high performance n'er do quit cards that I've heard that they are under freeBSD (I'm pretty sure that Yahoo uses those for their freeBSD boxes) - anyway, they are leaving their current Win95 hosts ASAP: on those machines at least, they suck! The 3c509, once plug n play is off, everything's great. And 3com includes a DOS utility that is even useful, unlike SMC. > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 1996 19:06:01 -0700 (PDT) > From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> > Reply-to: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu > To: Garth Corral <garthc@compass-da.com> > Cc: FreeBSD Questions <questions@freebsd.org> > Subject: Re: ep driver buggy? > On Tue, 3 Sep 1996, Garth Corral wrote: > > > Found this while browsing the FreeBSD handbook at freebsd.org: > > > > [from section 5.3.8. Networking] > > > > device ep0 at isa? port 0x300 net irq 10 vector epintr > > > > 3Com 3C509 (buggy) > > > > What exactly does 'buggy' mean? Is this up to date? > > The 3c509 driver has come on hard times recently. It isn't very stable, > main example being that the card will 'disappear' until it is disabled and > re-enabled with 'ifconfig ed0 down' and 'ifconfig ed0 up'. > > The NE2000 code is still as solid as ever :-) > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > > > Ian Kallen ian@gamespot.com Director of Technology & Web Administration http://www.gamespot.com
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