Subject: Re: TLP driver in generic
To: None <Richard.Earnshaw@buzzard.freeserve.co.uk>
From: Stephen Borrill <netbsd@precedence.co.uk>
List: port-cats
Date: 02/10/2003 09:26:21
On Sat, 8 Feb 2003, Richard Earnshaw wrote:
> I've just noticed that the GENERIC kernel is still configured to use the
> TLP ethernet driver (and this includes 1.6.1 sources). On my machine this
> *just does not work*.
>
> Has anyone else managed to get this driver working on a Cats? If not, why
> haven't we rolled by to the de driver which does work?
The de driver does not work well with the 21143 chipset when faced with a
full-duplex network. It just stalls and then runs out of mbufs. It's been
in that state for as long as I can remember (back to 1.3).
--
Stephen