Subject: Re: tlp0 vs de0 again
To: None <mw@blobulent.com>
From: Matt Thomas <matt@3am-software.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 01/04/2002 10:46:19
At 11:41 PM 1/3/2002 -0800, Michael Wolfson wrote:
>At 3:51 PM -0800 1/3/02, Bill Studenmund wrote:
>
>:)I think part of what happened was that the favorite add-in ethernet card
>:)was one made by Asante, which used the family of chips the de & tlp cover.
>:)
>:)I really don't think it matters which we support, de or tlp, but that the
>:)installer and GENERIC match.
>
>I agree 100%.  Though, with my Asante DEC 21140A, de only gives me 10Base-T
>option (even though it's recognized as 10/100) and tlp gives me a lot of
>buffering issues (it keeps increasing the buffers).

That's normal.  It just means your PCI bus is busier than expected.

My suggestion is to just go tlp everywhere.

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