Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Micah Gorrell
uot;Davide Libenzi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micah Gorrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Andrey Savochkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Romain Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig I. Hagan" &

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Davide Libenzi
On Tuesday 30 January 2001 08:14, Micah Gorrell wrote: > I have been running 2.2 on many machines since its release and have updated > to the latest version of 2.2 many times. All of these machines have an > eepro100 and I never saw a single problem with any of them. I updated most > of my machi

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-30 Thread Micah Gorrell
- From: "Andrey Savochkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Micah Gorrell" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Romain Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Craig I. Hagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, J

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Andrey Savochkin
On Mon, Jan 29, 2001 at 11:06:11AM -0700, Micah Gorrell wrote: > As stated in a number of previous messages to this list many people have had > serious problems with the eepro100 driver in 2.4. These problems where not > there in 2.2 and it is not a select few machines showing this so I very much

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Sergey Kubushin wrote: > On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > > > Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the > > motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had > > any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Udo A. Steinberg
Sergey Kubushin wrote: > > The older chips (e.g. 82557) work fine. The problem arises when you have the > newer 82559's. They do work, however, if the power management for eepro100 > is enabled in kernel config. It definitely means that those chips are > underinitialized (or overinitialized :)) w

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Micah Gorrell
aig I. Hagan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Romain Kang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, January 29, 2001 10:50 AM Subject: Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD >On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Craig I. Hagan wrote: > >> > One approach to the endl

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Sergey Kubushin
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Richard B. Johnson wrote: > Two of my Linux machines use the Intel Ethernet controller on the > motherboard. These are both SMP machines. I have never, ever, had > any problems with the eepro100 driver that handles these chips. > > I spite of the fact that the driver loops in

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Richard B. Johnson
On Mon, 29 Jan 2001, Craig I. Hagan wrote: > > One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port > > the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been > > ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter. > > However, I see no evidence that this has be

Re: eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Craig I. Hagan
> One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port > the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all, drivers have been > ported between these OSs before; e.g., the aic7xxx SCSI adapter. > However, I see no evidence that this has been attempted. Can > someone tell me what I'm obviou

eepro100 - Linux vs. FreeBSD

2001-01-29 Thread Romain Kang
Dumb question: I've been following the freebsd-hackers list for a while, and in that domain, the Intel NICs are the preferred interfaces because they perform well and are very stable. One approach to the endless eepro100 headaches would be to port the FreeBSD if_fxp driver to Linux. After all,