From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 9 16:16:22 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from implode.root.com (root.com [209.102.106.178]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 464CD37B60E for ; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:16:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dg@implode.root.com) Received: from implode.root.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by implode.root.com (8.8.8/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA23739; Tue, 9 May 2000 16:10:50 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005092310.QAA23739@implode.root.com> To: Rasmus Skaarup Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: fxp driver? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 2000 01:09:02 +0200." From: David Greenman Reply-To: dg@root.com Date: Tue, 09 May 2000 16:10:50 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > >I remember a thread either on freebsd-questions or freebsd-current, >regarding the fxp which caused some problems recently (within the last 3-4 >months).. I am unable to locate this thread in the mailing list archives, >so can somone please point in the right direction or even tell me the >outcome of the thread? Driver update, where and how? > >The problem is low-speed or no-speed with Intel Pro 100 NICs and >FreeBSD 3.[123] RELEASE. I don't have a pointer to the discussion, but the outcome was that there were problems with the driver reading larger SEEPROMs that Intel started using on newer cards, which caused the initialization to go wrong in the driver. It is fixed in current, 4.x-stable, and 3.x-stable as of about April 2nd. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org Creator of high-performance Internet servers - http://www.terasolutions.com Pave the road of life with opportunities. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message