Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:34:44 +0000 (GMT) From: Terry Lambert <tlambert@primenet.com> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? Message-ID: <199807262234.PAA19067@usr01.primenet.com> In-Reply-To: <199807262126.OAA11963@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jul 26, 98 02:26:03 pm
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> > >Recognising isn't so much the battle as working with them. But yes, > > >please do. (File PR, naturally). > > > > The driver in stable works fine with both the PCnet PCI-II and the > > PCnet-FAST reference boards from AMD. > > That's very interesting. Reports and experience have suggested that > some implementations don't work, but it's good to know that we do > function correctly with the reference implementations. You should talk to Doug Ambrisko about this. Running 2 of these cards at 100 resulted in less than desirable throughput. I believe there were also problems with the hardware autodetection, unlike the 82558 part. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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