From owner-freebsd-hackers Sun Jul 26 15:35:37 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id PAA20234 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:35:37 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from usr01.primenet.com (tlambert@usr01.primenet.com [206.165.6.201]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id PAA20218 for ; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:35:28 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tlambert@usr01.primenet.com) Received: (from tlambert@localhost) by usr01.primenet.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) id PAA19067; Sun, 26 Jul 1998 15:34:46 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert Message-Id: <199807262234.PAA19067@usr01.primenet.com> Subject: Re: AMD PCNet/FAST cards; suppliers? To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Date: Sun, 26 Jul 1998 22:34:44 +0000 (GMT) Cc: rjs@fdy2.demon.co.uk, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199807262126.OAA11963@antipodes.cdrom.com> from "Mike Smith" at Jul 26, 98 02:26:03 pm X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4 PL25] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >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