Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:14:01 -0500 From: steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com To: ale@unixmania.net, steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: ie ethernet device driver Message-ID: <H0002be91233c0e9.0994360439.kcopmp01@MHS>
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--openmail-part-48f87fe9-00000001 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Disposition: inline ;Creation-Date="Thu, 5 Jul 2001 14:14:01 -0500" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit You're right. The driver is still listed in a number of places including man, LINT, the source, etc. However, it is unusable because it has been removed from isa_compat.h so it cannot be recognized by the OS. In addition, there is an intermittent bug (PR 16214) with the driver. There is a fix available that fixes both of these problems: http://www.jfitz.com/tips/freebsd_etherexpress16.html It modifies the following files, which are the culprits for the current lack of support for the ie driver: /usr/src/sys/dev/ie/if_ie.c and /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.h The fix works great and I've had no issues with the machines running it, even though I put a fairly heavy load on both of them for network services. Steven -----Original Message----- From: ale [mailto:ale@unixmania.net] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:27 PM To: steve.d.meacham Cc: ale Subject: Re: ie ethernet device driver On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:35:51AM -0500, steve.d.meacham@mail.sprint.com wrote: > I have two machines which still use the ie ethernet driver. It seems > to have been removed from -STABLE for a while now, but I'm not sure why. mmm.. are you sure ? I ask because I both see "device ie0 ...." in /sys/i386/conf/LINT and "man 4 ie" works. I've not tried to compile a kernel with this, but it seems to me device ie is still available. my box is 4.3-stable hope this help :-) -- bye! Ale ale@unixmania.net --openmail-part-48f87fe9-00000001-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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