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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!gatech!concert!sas!mozart.unx.sas.com!torpid.unx.sas.com!sastdr From: sastdr@torpid.unx.sas.com (Thomas David Rivers) Subject: Re: New NE2000 Ethernet driver Sender: news@unx.sas.com (Noter of Newsworthy Events) Message-ID: <C45LMv.AMw@unx.sas.com> Date: Fri, 19 Mar 1993 20:44:54 GMT References: <2019374.32551.582@pablo.kcbbs.gen.nz> <32726@toad.com> Nntp-Posting-Host: torpid.unx.sas.com Organization: SAS Institute Inc. Lines: 54 In article <32726@toad.com> curt@mofo.toad.com (Curt Mayer) writes: >In article <2019374.32551.582@pablo.kcbbs.gen.nz> paul@pablo.kcbbs.gen.nz (Paul Kendall) writes: >>Hi, >> Could the person that rewrote(?) the ne2000 driver, or someone else, >>please mail a copy of the patch that defined DSCM_SENDP in >>/sys/i386/isa/ic/ds8390.h >> Thanks. >> >>Please reply to :- >>(Paul Kendall) paul@pablo.kcbbs.gen.nz > >i did that work, but this driver has problems with certain kinds of loads >that someone on the net found for me. needless to say, the new version is >undergoing much more testing before i stick it on the net. until I release >it, I suggest that you get Dave Rivers' driver; it seems very stable and >doesn't drop back to back udp packets. > > curt > >p.s. the new driver will be released when I get time off this damn contract. > While I welcome any acclaim I can get ( :-) ) - I can't take credit for this driver... I simply grabbed one someone in Japan had put together (at the University of Tokyo.) Here's the original text of the message I saved, a reply to Christoph KuKulies (kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de) posted by Shin Yoshimura, (shin@nc.u-tokyo.ac.jp). The original post was about the slow ne1000 performance. This all transpired around August of 1992... >>>>>> On 12 Aug 92 05:03:32 JST, kuku@acds.physik.rwth-aachen.de (Christoph Kuku >lies) said: > >kuku> ftp rate due to 386SX I'm using), the other is a ne1000 (klone) which >kuku> works well with telnet but very poor with ftp. > >Original ne driver in 0.1 is too slow performance in some cases. You >can try another ne1000/2000 driver. Anonymous ftp is available from >ftp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp:~ftp/pub/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/if_ne.shar. If that is unavailable, I can mail the if_ne.shar file to anyone who needs it.... - Dave Rivers - (rivers@ponds.uucp (home)) (sastdr@unx.sas.com (work)) -- UPDATE ALL INFORMATION AND POD INTO COSMOS - Federal Express