From owner-freebsd-current Sat Aug 29 11:34:31 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id LAA22190 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:34:31 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from freebie.dcfinc.com (freebie.dcfinc.com [138.113.5.128]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA22185; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:34:30 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from chad@freebie.dcfinc.com) Received: (from chad@localhost) by freebie.dcfinc.com (8.8.7/8.8.3a) id LAA15318; Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:33:26 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" Message-Id: <199808291833.LAA15318@freebie.dcfinc.com> Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on xl (3c905/3c905B) driver To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:33:25 -0700 (MST) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <199808291730.NAA00918@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Aug 29, 98 01:30:12 pm" Reply-to: chad@dcfinc.com X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL22 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > Okay people, it's been some time since I put the xl0 driver in > -current and -stable. I need to know if people are having problems > with the driver or not. So far I've gotten startlingly little > feedback. This either means that it's working so well that nobody has > had any trouble with it, or you guys are all just slackers and are too > lazy to speak up. You left out a third. We don't know better. Here's an edited version of my dmesg.boot file: -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= FreeBSD 2.2.7-STABLE #0: Wed Jul 29 18:26:19 MST 1998 chad@chad.anasazi.com:/usr/src/sys/compile/CHAD CPU: Pentium/P55C (166.06-MHz 586-class CPU) Origin = "GenuineIntel" Id = 0x543 Stepping=3 Features=0x8001bf real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes) chip0 rev 3 on pci0:0:0 chip1 rev 1 on pci0:7:0 chip2 rev 0 on pci0:7:1 pci0:7:2: Intel Corporation, device=0x7020, class=serial, subclass=0x03 int d irq 9 [no driver assigned] vx0 <3COM 3C905 Fast Etherlink XL PCI> rev 0 int a irq 11 on pci0:16:0 mii[*mii*]: disable 'auto select' with DOS util! address 00:60:97:de:2b:a8 Intel Pentium F00F detected, installing workaround -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= As you can see, I'm running the vx0 driver. It's the one selected by the installation process. I kept it as I built my custom kernel. Should I have selected the xl driver then? If so, how would I have known that? -crl -- Chad R. Larson (CRL15) 602-953-1392 Brother, can you paradigm? chad@dcfinc.com chad@larsons.org chad@anasazi.com larson1@home.net DCF, Inc. - 14623 North 49th Place, Scottsdale, Arizona 85254-2207 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message