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Date:      Thu, 24 Sep 1998 16:49:30 -0400
From:      Dennis <dennis@etinc.com>
To:        Greg Skafte <skafte@worldgate.com>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Is the de driver dead?
Message-ID:  <199809241635.QAA00865@etinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <19980923204336.G20936@worldgate.com>
References:  <199809240125.SAA05464@dingo.cdrom.com> <199809232001.UAA00439@etinc.com> <199809240125.SAA05464@dingo.cdrom.com>

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At 08:43 PM 9/23/98 -0600, you wrote:
>what is the difference between the -AC and the -AE cards? I'm having fairly
>good luck with the -AE chipset cards
>
>Quoting Mike Smith (mike@smith.net.au)
>On Subject: Re: Is the de driver dead?
>Date: Wed, Sep 23, 1998 at 06:25:05PM -0700
>
>> > 
>> > 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.

The *problem* with this answer is that Matt has had drivers that worked
(they had
to be patched in) back at v2.2.5 but they STILL havent made it into the
distribution. 
If it is 3rd party then it probably shouldnt be in the distribution if
noone is going to 
update it.

db

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