From: Jes Sorensen <jes@sunsite.dk>
To: Jason Lunz <j@trellisinc.com>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters
Date: 26 Feb 2002 21:09:11 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <d3it8kuhso.fsf@lxplus049.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E16bhwo-0007GZ-00@bronto.zrz.TU-Berlin.DE> <3C6D07B9.596AD49E@mandrakesoft.com> <20020215150342.GA4347@trellisinc.com>
In-Reply-To: Jason Lunz's message of "Fri, 15 Feb 2002 10:03:42 -0500"
Jason Lunz <j@trellisinc.com> writes:
> In mlist.linux-kernel, you wrote:
> > Cuz the driver is a piece of crap, and BroadCom isn't interested in
> > working with the open source community to fix up the issues.
>
> Can you elaborate? What are the issues? I've found the broadcomm driver
> to be more robust than the in-kernel one for acenic cards. With acenic,
> I've had a null-pointer deref on SMP and other lockups where I wasn't
> lucky enough to get an oops.
Ehm, it would be nice to get some more details on this. Few people
have reported problems with the acenic driver for a long time, except
for certain highmem configs and a problem with very old Tigon I cards.
Jes
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-02-26 20:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 58+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-15 12:58 Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters Frank Elsner
2002-02-15 13:06 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:36 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 14:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 14:55 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 15:00 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-02-15 15:36 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 20:20 ` David S. Miller
2002-02-19 0:18 ` Thomas Langås
2002-02-15 15:03 ` Jason Lunz
2002-02-26 20:09 ` Jes Sorensen [this message]
2002-02-15 14:43 ` J Sloan
2002-02-27 14:12 ` Stephan von Krawczynski
2002-03-10 15:33 ` Harald Welte
2002-03-10 19:10 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-10 21:35 ` Harald Welte
2002-03-11 0:41 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 0:55 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 1:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 1:14 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 1:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 1:31 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-11 2:05 ` Wayne Whitney
2002-03-11 2:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:10 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 2:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:22 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 2:28 ` Mike Fedyk
2002-03-11 2:32 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:30 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 3:15 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 4:20 ` Michael Clark
2002-03-11 4:28 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 19:48 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 6:04 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-12 6:20 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-12 5:40 ` [patch] ns83820 0.17 (Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters) Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-12 11:00 ` Michael Clark
2002-03-12 11:15 ` [patch] ns83820 0.17 David S. Miller
2002-03-12 13:03 ` dean gaudet
2002-03-12 13:03 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-12 18:12 ` Trever L. Adams
2002-03-12 18:17 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-12 18:31 ` Trever L. Adams
2002-03-12 19:52 ` pjd
2002-03-12 19:06 ` Charles Cazabon
2002-03-12 19:39 ` Pedro M. Rodrigues
2002-03-14 9:54 ` [patch] ns83820 0.17 (Re: Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters) Jeff Garzik
2002-03-14 20:37 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-15 1:02 ` Jeff Garzik
2002-03-15 8:56 ` Daniel Phillips
2002-04-08 5:14 ` Richard Gooch
2002-03-11 2:04 ` Broadcom 5700/5701 Gigabit Ethernet Adapters Ben Collins
2002-03-11 2:13 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-11 2:22 ` Ben Collins
2002-03-11 2:31 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-21 20:39 ` Thomas Langås
2002-03-11 6:07 ` Harald Welte
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