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From: j@uriah.heep.sax.de (J Wunsch)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: 3c90x or DEC 21x40?
Date: 19 Apr 1997 17:44:57 GMT
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castor@drizzle.Stanford.EDU (Castor Fu) wrote:

> The only complaint I would have is that the de driver which is in
> FreeBSD 2.1.5 and 2.2.1 does not appear to be compatible with the
> newer versions of the DEC chipset.  When I noted this before,
> someone sent me a newer version of the driver which works great.  I
> don't know why it didn't make it into the recent release.

Very simple: since the new driver wasn't available already by that
time.  I've asked Matt a few weeks before 2.2 was due (so there would
have been a final chance to bring it in), but he was simply too busy
to get it ready, and he wrote me that he considered the driver that
was in NetBSD at that time too buggy anyway (so he wished this driver
never made it into the official NetBSD source).

Now that the updated driver is available, we'll have to integrate it
anytime soon.  Once it has been tested in -current for a few weeks, it
will certainly also make it into the 2.2 branch so to be in the next
2.2.x release as well.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
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