There should be a more general mechanism for this. I have the same
problem with the USB stuff. 100+ people on the usb-bsd mailing list and
only answers to directed questions.
What about, like 'HEADS-UP', a 'FEEDBACK: <drivername>' message that
should invite people to send 'it works' messages. And maybe provide
a template of commands to cut and paste. Something like:
(echo it works for me
uname -a
ident <source code for driver>
dmesg | grep '^<drivername>'
) | mail -s "<drivername>" per...@address
assuming that people are too lazy to type things in themselves.
Cheers,
Nick
On Tue, 11 May 1999, Bill Paul wrote:
> I'm wondering if anybody out there has actually done any experimentation
> with gigabit ethernet boards using the Alteon Tigon driver. I know that
> it works on my hardware, but it's nice to actually have some feedback
> from people so that I know if it's actually working worth a damn. So
> far I have not heard a peep out of anybody, other than a couple of people
> who were nice enough to help out with some driver testing, and that
> was months ago.
>
> I usually consider this a good thing, because it means that at least
> nobody is complaining. But when people ask me "hey Bill, how well do
> these boards work with FreeBSD?" all I can tell them is that they seem
> to work okay in my limited test environment. This does not exactly
> provide a lot of motivation to go out and buy some gigabit ethernet
> cards.
>
> Also, I only have access to a limited selection of cards (I have a 3Com
> and a Netgear board, and others have tested AceNIC boards) so I don't
> know for sure if some of the ones that I claim to support actually
> work. (I don't have any reason to believe they won't, but Murphy's
> Law applies.) I also don't have access to a gigabit switch, so my
> testing is limited to blasting traffic between two hosts through a
> fiber patch.
>
> So, if anybody is actually using a Tigon-based gigabit board with
> STABLE or CURRENT, let me know. Is it working reliably? Is performance
> good? Is it bad? Inquiring minds want to know.
>
> -Bill
>
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