Re: Call for testers - dc ethernet driver patch

On 2004-01-07 11:32:23 (-0800), Don Lewis <truckman_at_FreeBSD.org> wrote:
> The dc driver has been broken ever since it was converted to use busdma.
> The symptoms are that it reports spurious output errors and collisions,
> even when running in full-duplex mode.  I believe the patch below fixes
> the problem, but I do not have the appropriate hardware to test it.  I
> have had one gotten one report so far from someone who claims this patch
> fixed the problems he was seeing.  I'd appreciate further testing of
> this patch, especially with as many of the chipsets supported by the
> driver as possible so that I can commit this patch.  Please mention the
> type of hardware you are using (machine architecture and card probe
> message) in your reports. This is somewhat time critical because I've
> had users express interest in getting this into 5.2.

Seems to work pretty well on my Alpha (PWS500a)

  dc0: <Intel 21143 10/100BaseTX> port 0x9100-0x917f mem 0x81192000-0x8119207f irq 0 at device 3.0 on pci0

Still some collisions reported, eight in about ten minutes, not full duplex
though, so that might be okay, but a great improvement over the many thousands
of collisions it used to report.

Cheers,

 - Philip

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