Which em(4) chips work/don't work? [Was: RE: dummynet, em driver, device polling issues :-((]

[Ferdinand Goldmann]

Darren Pilgrim wrote:

> I'd be interested in finding out the specific chips with which people are
> (not) having success.  As em(4) supports an entire family of products,
> rather than a single chip, it may be that some chips have quirks or other
> gotchas the driver needs to address.  It certainly wouldn't be the first
> occurance of revision-specific bugs.

My troublesome card is a
     device   = '82545GM Gigabit Ethernet Controller'

But I am not sure if it is of any use compiling such a list, because the 
various hardware platforms and network requirements on which people test their 
cards are very different.

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