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.

enami.