Subject: Re: new kind of crash under 1.2 1/2 :)
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jukka Marin <jmarin@pyy.jmp.fi>
List: port-i386
Date: 05/17/1997 20:38:21
On Sat, May 17, 1997 at 10:01:28AM -0700, Jason Thorpe wrote:

> :-) . o O ( mmm, diff -r )

Hmm. :-)

> What sort of card are you using with the 1.2 "de" driver, exactly?

"SMC EtherPower PCI BNC+RJ45" said the dealer.  dmesg says:

de0 at pci0 dev 20 function 0: DC21041 [10Mb/s] pass 1.1
de0: Ethernet address 00:e0:29:05:43:63
de0: interrupting at irq 12
biomask c060 netmask d060 ttymask d27a
changing root device to sd0a
de0: enabling Thinwire/BNC port


> I know you probably didn't want to hear this, but the -current "de"
> driver is _much_ better... it wouldn't be all that easy to back-port
> to 1.2, either :-(

How stable is -current (when it compiles)?  I'll try to install it on
a 486 soon, but I won't be able to test all the same hardware with that
machine (no PCI bus etc.).

  -jm


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