--On Thursday, July 12, 2007 16:11:11 -0700 David Christensen
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dave, perhaps you could answer my question?
I'm using the 0.9.6 driver with 6.1 RELEASE. I don't use
jumbo frames, so
the only problem I've experienced is the link state going up and down
occasionally.
Does the more current driver solve the link state problem?
If it does, can
I use it on 6.1 merely by replacing the three files included
with it? Or
are there includes that refer to other libraries that have
changed since
6.1?
Am I better off upgrading the entire system to 6.2? (I
prefer not to do
this, because I have to take the site down to do so.
Patching files and
rebuilding world and kernel only takes the box out of service
during the
reboots.
I've never seen the link up/down problem myself, so I don't know
if any changes I've made have an effect on it. You would need to
change more than the bce driver since it depends upon the brgphy
driver under sys/dev/mii which would also need to change. There
may be other dependencies upon changes in the 6.2 kernel which
would prevent a quick/easy port without some debugging.
Dave
Thanks for the quick answer.
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Paul Schmehl ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
Senior Information Security Analyst
The University of Texas at Dallas
http://www.utdallas.edu/ir/security/
