Date: Wed, 2 Apr 1997 21:46:27 +0200 From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch) To: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does de driver do 100MBIT Full Duplex? Message-ID: <19970402214627.DT15556@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19970402091819.00695824@etinc.com>; from dennis on Apr 2, 1997 09:18:26 -0500 References: <3.0.32.19970402091819.00695824@etinc.com>
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As dennis wrote: > Is the driver that you send me directly for 2.1.7 (that worked > beautifully) in 2.2.1R? If not, WHY NOT! No need to shout. We aren't deaf exactly. Since Matt released it _after_ 2.2 has been cut. I've got a very explicit message from Matt when i've been asking him earlier (right in time to get something into 2.2 still) about a new version, that he considered the stuff that sneaked into NetBSD by that time too buggy to see it officially in FreeBSD. That's why we've been integrating the little hack still to make at least the DE21140A supported. We originally deferred the inclusion of this patch in anticipation of the new driver version. As you can see, it's not that we're sleeping or wouldn't care about something that can be considered one of the major ethernet NIC drivers in *BSD. Also, as i understand it, Matt's new driver won't fit without a little work into 2.2 or higher, due to the new media selection method. This work simply needs to be done, and it requires a volunteer. (I've got one potential volunteer, but he wouldn't be able to do it anytime soon. There are not many people volunteering for work, and these are seldom the people who shout in a mailing list. :) -- 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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