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From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@FreeBSD.org>
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ix0 device timeout - Help!
Date: Sat, 08 Jun 1996 17:24:47 -0700
Organization: Walnut Creek CDROM
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To: Dave Roethig <daver@sirius.cs.pdx.edu>

Dave Roethig wrote:
> 
> We just installed 2.1.0 from CDROM and installed a
> Intel EtherExpress card.

Replace this card.  The driver is known broken (and even mentioned as
such in the release notes) and really good for little more than
installing from.

Someone's been trying to re-write the driver from scratch, but has been
having NDA problems with Intel (as usual).  Fixing the existing one is
not an option.
-- 
- Jordan Hubbard
  President, FreeBSD Project