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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ed0: device timeout (help)
Date: Tue, 23 Apr 1996 01:16:36 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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J Wunsch wrote:
> No idea on the EtherExpress.

It's a known rogue - timeouts all the time with that driver, and the
original author abandoned it very early in the game so fixes were never
made.

Happily, someone is now working on their own reimplementation of this
and I'm hoping that we'll soon see the last of if_ix.c.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project