Subject: Re: Fast Ethernet for NetBSD ... which card? Here's a good one!
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Scott Bartram <scottb@iis.com>
List: current-users
Date: 07/27/1999 22:16:13
enami tsugutomo wrote:
> 
> Scott Bartram <scottb@iis.com> writes:
> 
> > In article <19990727011241.10749.qmail@mail.netbsd.org>,
> >         Jason Thorpe <thorpej@netbsd.org> writes:
> > > Well, ever since the bug in the EPIC/100 Fast Ethernet driver which
> > > caused lots of "device timeout" errors was fixed, the "epic" driver
> > > works quite well with SMC's 9432TX card.
> >
> > I had to pull an SMC card out of one of my 1.4 systems because of this
> > "device timeout" problem. The epic driver has not changed since 1.4 so
> > do I assume that the chipset is bad?
> 
> The driver is changed after 1.4.
> 
> Note that the main source of the epic driver is smc83c170* in
> sys/dev/ic.  And the changes in rev 1.17 of smc83c170.c is probably
> the fix for that timeout bug and it's post 1.4, since the base of 1.4
> branch is 1.15.

My hurried mistake. I only checked if_epic_pci.c

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scottb