Date: Sat, 29 Aug 1998 11:33:25 -0700 (MST) From: "Chad R. Larson" <chad@freebie.dcfinc.com> To: wpaul@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu (Bill Paul) Cc: stable@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Looking for feedback on xl (3c905/3c905B) driver Message-ID: <199808291833.LAA15318@freebie.dcfinc.com> In-Reply-To: <199808291730.NAA00918@skynet.ctr.columbia.edu> from Bill Paul at "Aug 29, 98 01:30:12 pm"
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> 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:
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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<FPU,VME,DE,PSE,TSC,MSR,MCE,CX8,MMX>
real memory = 33554432 (32768K bytes)
chip0 <Intel 82439> rev 3 on pci0:0:0
chip1 <Intel 82371SB PCI-ISA bridge> rev 1 on pci0:7:0
chip2 <Intel 82371SB IDE interface> 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
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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
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