Subject: Re: Improving the EtherH driver.
To: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
From: Neil A. Carson <neil@causality.com>
List: port-arm32
Date: 12/12/1997 17:58:01
Mike Pumford wrote:
> 
> I have been experimenting with the EtherH driver and have mostly converted
> it to use the NetBSD generic DP8390 chip driver. This driver does improve
> over the original driver but does produce a lot of remote transmit DMA
> failed to complete errors.
> 
> I was wondering if anyone has any extra information on this card which was
> used when writing the original driver which could be used to get rid of
> this message and complete the driver. I was also wondering if the Kernel
> team had any done any work on improving the driver for this card that
> would be integratable.

Good man :-)

The I-Cubed information wasn't supplied to me under any particular NDA,
but they'd sooner stuff is kept close to home. However, I'm sure
something can be sorted out.

	Neil

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