Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Andrew Gallatin
had to walk into mine and say:
> Bill Paul writes:
> > For those who may not know, I've been tinkering with a new 'tulip clone'
> > driver for various PCI ethernet cards. I'm attempting to combine support
> > for several tulip like chipsets into a single driver in an attempt to
> > reduce code bloat. I've gotten things to where I think they work okay,
> > but I'm looking for testers who have FreeBSD-current running with the
> > following PCI chipsets:
>
> YES! Hurray!!!!! You are my hero! I have been suffering under the
> if_de driver which utterly fails to grok 100Mb full duplex on all my
> 21143 equipped alphas. This news has made my week, my month!
Careful. I said that the only 21143 cards I have use MII transceivers.
I don't have any cards that use symbol mode and built-in NWAY. The
Macronix chips copy the 21143's built-in NWAY pretty closely and
they work pretty well, but I don't know how well it works with an
actual 21143. I don't know how DEC set up the ethernet in the alphas:
if they used an MII transceiver, then it should work okay, but if
not you could be in for trouble. I wish I didn't have to say that,
but I just don't have the hardware to test with.
-Bill
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