[haiku-development] Re: Ethernet drivers question

  • From: François Revol <revol@xxxxxxx>
  • To: haiku-development@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 00:19:38 +0200

On 20/07/2014 17:07, Axel Dörfler wrote:
> On 07/20/2014 05:20 AM, Thomas Mueller wrote:
>> I pointed out that the Ethernet chip was supported in Haiku R1A4.  I
>> was able to web-browse with Web Positive.
> 
> We have a compatibility layer for FreeBSD drivers -- we're able to adopt
> them pretty much without any changes.
> If the driver does work in Haiku R1alpha4, it could be that it has been
> broken in FreeBSD at a later point (as that release is quite old already).
> In that case, it's likely that we adopted the bug in the mean time. So
> you might want to check out a nightly build to see if your hardware
> still works.

There seems to be some regression, on wifi drivers at least:
https://dev.haiku-os.org/ticket/10673

François.

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