On 4/6/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Also I'm trying to see how hard it will be to support Realtek 8029(AS) > > NICs in Plan 9. (that's what is being emulated by Parallels) > > They are deemed to be absolutely awful. I wonder what got them to > pick that particular bad brand of device. > > ++L
Probably because NE2000 is "easy" and supported by most every OS. Even the most esoteric of kernels seem to support Realtek. It's just a bridge to the real adapter anyway, however in FreeBSD I was getting scp stalls and other issues that I hope can be cleared up after the beta goes release. I was getting transfers on scp from the host to FreeBSD in the MB/sec (2-4 I forget precisely) however, as I said, it wasn't terribly reliable yet. The speed at which everything executes really is quite nice though. Even their support of using a file for a disk partition was faster than anything I've seen before. Once the issues are cleaned up I've got very little reason to care about dual booting anything anymore on my Mac it seems. I'm starting to wonder if there is something going on in the PCI scans that's not quite up to par as far as the NIC goes. FreeBSD found it readily enough though. Dave
