Update: the claim to be unable to install was hasty, I went in and looked into myself and was able to get an install. Here's what I've found so far:
First, the 82547EI will fail due to Invalid Mac Address, so I guess you hacked around this problem yourself? I had someone here test all legacy adapters for this problem and I was told nothing else was exhibiting it besides the 82542, obviously this is false :) In any case I will be making an official patch to fix that problem soon. Second, once I had the device working I do indeed see substandard performance, I am continuing to debug, but wanted you to know that I have reproduced this. Jack On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 12:49 PM, Jack Vogel <[email protected]> wrote: > We've run into a snag on this problem. The 82547 is a LOM only interface > and my validation engineer has only found two old systems that have it, > and neither of them will even install FreeBSD 8 they are so old :( > > I might suggest that you continue using the 7.2 driver with that hardware > if it was working. > > To me this is further data on the need to have a frozen legacy version of > em but the problem is which code to use and how to approach it. > > Can you give me more specifics on the box you have this installed on?? > > Regards, > > Jack > > > > On Mon, Nov 30, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Hiroki Sato <[email protected]> wrote: > >> Jack Vogel <[email protected]> wrote >> in <[email protected]>: >> >> jf> I will look into this Hiroki, as time goes the older hardware does not >> jf> always >> jf> get test cycles like one might wish. >> >> Thanks! Please let me know if you need more information. >> >> -- Hiroki >> > > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
