Date: Wed, 12 Feb 1997 20:39:54 -0800 (PST) From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu> To: Joe Greco <jgreco@solaria.sol.net> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need definitive answer on de 21140-AC driver Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.94.970212203009.300D-100000@localhost> In-Reply-To: <199702121254.GAA25336@solaria.sol.net>
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On Wed, 12 Feb 1997, Joe Greco wrote: > When I talked to Matt Thomas, several months ago, he provided me a prototype > driver that compiled under 2.1.6R. I beat the snot out of it and have since > been using it in production, mostly with the SMC dual port 10/100's, but > also a few other -AC cards like the Kingston. There are a few bugs in the > driver, none of which affect the usability of the cards. > > > Is there a new driver in the works? If not, I'll gladly donate this card > > for a while if it's a matter of just getting the card to the right person. > > Offered to do that too :-) Matt seems to have what needs doing nailed > down pretty well. I've hinted to him several times I'd like a 2.2* driver > but so far I haven't seen one. Well, shall I bother him again? > That's too bad because the de driver is a really cool thing to have, and > if we only support old 100mbps cards that are no longer made, well, yuck. It's not that I need 100mbps (we _JUST_ installed this 10mb network not two years ago), but I'd like the Kingston to work so I can return this crummy 3c900. 3k for input buffers, what were they thinking?!? Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs vx0 1500 <Link> 00.a0.24.ba.13.f8 258480 244083 6868 0 vx0 1500 128.223.170/2 gdi 258480 244083 6868 0 (hm, the errors caught up, it doesn't seem to affect multicast.) > I suspect it's mainly a matter of getting Matt to release a version of his > code. According to the current if_de.c, his email is matt@3am-software.com -- I shall fire off an inquisitive email following this. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major
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