on 12/2/99 8:29 PM, Brian D Chase at bdc@world.std.com wrote:

> [snip]
> 
> Ragge moved us back to the machine independent lance ethernet driver.
> The 1.4.1 release has the VAX specific driver.  The first one or two of
> the 1.4L kernels that were distributed exhibited these timeout problems.
> But I think Ragge fixed them in subsequent updates.  I've not been
> following current for a while, so I'm not exactly up to date on all my
> info.  Man, we could use a current snapshot right about now :-)
> 
> Does anyone know when 1.5 is scheduled to go out?
> 
> -brian.
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Thanks for the heads up. I wasn't able to communicate with the VAX under
1.4L until I turned off 802.3 on my Mac, could the 802.3 be declaring
network collision timeout/"backoff" to the network? Since 802.3 is used on
all the LANCE chips, is this a bug I should PR or are we in the clear?

    Chris

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