You're right. The driver is still listed in a number of places including man, LINT, the source, etc. However, it is unusable because it has been removed from isa_compat.h so it cannot be recognized by the OS. In addition, there is an intermittent bug (PR 16214) with the driver. There is a fix available that fixes both of these problems: http://www.jfitz.com/tips/freebsd_etherexpress16.html It modifies the following files, which are the culprits for the current lack of support for the ie driver: /usr/src/sys/dev/ie/if_ie.c and /usr/src/sys/i386/isa/isa_compat.h The fix works great and I've had no issues with the machines running it, even though I put a fairly heavy load on both of them for network services. Steven -----Original Message----- From: ale [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2001 12:27 PM To: steve.d.meacham Cc: ale Subject: Re: ie ethernet device driver On Thu, Jul 05, 2001 at 11:35:51AM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have two machines which still use the ie ethernet driver. It seems > to have been removed from -STABLE for a while now, but I'm not sure why. mmm.. are you sure ? I ask because I both see "device ie0 ...." in /sys/i386/conf/LINT and "man 4 ie" works. I've not tried to compile a kernel with this, but it seems to me device ie is still available. my box is 4.3-stable hope this help :-) -- bye! Ale [EMAIL PROTECTED]
