Date: Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:44:45 -0400 From: Dennis <dennis@etinc.com> To: Avalon Books <avalon@advicom.net>, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Is the de driver dead? Message-ID: <199809241630.QAA00852@etinc.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.4.02.9809240854390.4005-100000@vespucci.advicom.n et> References: <19980923204336.G20936@worldgate.com>
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At 08:59 AM 9/24/98 -0500, Avalon Books wrote: > >> > > >> > > Still can't use -AC 10/100 21040 cards with the de driver, and having other >> > > mysterious problems with a 3 21041 card system running 2.2.7-RELEASE. >> > > >> > > Is this known, or cared about? >> > >> > It's known that there are problems; the 'de' driver is third-party >> > software and the problem needs to be addressed with the vendor. >> > >> > Speak to matt@3am-software.com. >> > > > I have heard this, too, but my experience with the de driver has been >one of flawless operation, under any load and every protocol I've tried. I >use Kingston KNE-40BT (using the DEC 21041A/PB) and I have to admit, for >an inexpensive card that's warrantied *forever*, its good hardware. > After the few network problems I run into (and they are few and far >between), there wasn't anything that could be firmly blamed on the de >driver as the culprit. Is there any documentation on these supposed >problems with the de driver? The card you site is not a 21040 nor a -AC or later, so how is this relevant? The first problem is that there is seemingly no way to get the 10/100 cards to work on a 10mb/s network as they "autosense" wrong and when set manually do not work with the DE driver. db To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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