-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 thus Gordon Messmer spake: > On 08/23/2010 09:22 AM, Timo Schoeler wrote: >> I'm amused about PeeCee hardware (sorry, only half of a pun intended)... >> There's those two NICs on board of a *server* grade machine, a 82573E >> and a 82573L. One of them is just *broken* (see above). Hi, > Actually, both of them are broken. One of them has a workaround > available for its brokenness. yep, I read the driver's source (and hey, they do comment their code! ;)... For me, it's dead silicon. I know, even CPUs may have hundreds of errata, but shipping and selling crappy NIC chipsets is something that collides with my universe. YMMV, tho. Timo -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFMc5gYfg746kcGBOwRAkFxAJ0djqrQnNPAFOq2cbnTNwvqsEnQNQCggklF gl0jqwNXvmybbAS7Qdf4tTs= =KiQQ -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----