Subject: Re: 100base NIC's
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Mark Brinicombe <mark@causality.com>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/13/1999 22:24:23
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> On Thu, 13 May 1999 22:44:09 -0500 (CDT) 
>  John Darrow <John.P.Darrow@wheaton.edu> wrote:
> 
>  > Up through 1.3.3, we've been very happy with the Intel EtherExpress cards.
>  > However, with 1.4, I've been unable to get them to talk at anything other
>  > than 10/HDX.  I filed a pr on this (kern/7567) a couple of days ago.
> 
> This one confuses me, and I'm going to look into it as soon as I can
> put a '557 card in one of my machines.
Hi,
  With 1.4 on a Cyrix MediaGX board I have had several fxp problems. One
is the device timeout mentioned in the PR. The other one is that I get a
lot of checksum errors that appear to be specific to the use of a 82558
(motherboard) and an 82559 (PCI card).

Cheers,
				Mark