On Sun, Sep 03, 2006 at 05:00:37PM -0700, Ray Percival wrote:
> On Sep 3, 2006, at 3:59 PM, Sylwester S. Biernacki wrote:
> > Theo wrote about em driver in OpenBSD and bad vendor design of Intel
> > NICs in general. Exactly the opposite I have used Intel server cards
> > with ~320Mbps traffic (max of old PCI board ;P) and everything worked
> > as it should.
>
> I think he was writing about WiFi cards. I've yet to find anything
> bad about old-skool ethernet cards. Also the ethernet cards *do* have
> free drivers unlike the wifi cards.
No, he made it explicitly clear he was talking about their gigabit
ethernet cards:
Approximately six years ago Intel gave the *BSD projects a driver
for the Intel gigabit cards, the so-called em(4) driver.
http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=openbsd-misc&m=115707648205545&w=2
