Re: TLP driver in generic

[Stephen Borrill <netbsd%precedence.co.uk@localhost>]

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