On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 09:10:27AM -0400, gabriel rosenkoetter wrote:

 > > P.S. My asante card
 > > with the de driver can't drive 100 Mbits in 1.5 without lots of
 > > hiccups and whining.  It also does not do the auto 100 with the
 > > switch reliably.  I'll have to fire it up with 1.5.1 and see if this
 > > is all fixed up...(!)
 > 
 > There may be some stuff that's fixed things up. Have a look at
 > http://cvsweb.netbsd.org/bsdweb.cgi/syssrc/sys/dev/pci/if_de.c. None
 > of that screams "performance improvement" to me, though.

Could you try the asante card with the `tlp' driver?  Read the tlp(4)
manual page to see what option you need to make it match real DEC chips.

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        -- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@zembu.com>