Stay away from those cheap cards alltogether and get intel or 3com - I have
stopped using realtek based cards in my machines, I orginally started with 7
machines with realtek nics in them, over the last year when one went bad I
would replace it with 3com or intel, I have 1 machine running a realtek card
now. Just the day before yesterday I had to replace my kids realtek nic, and
2 weeks ago my wifes.
On Sunday 11 March 2001 19:03, you wrote:
> > Date: Sat, 10 Mar 2001 09:04:54 -0500
> > From: Prana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: [Cooker] Is this true rtl8139 vs 8139too ??
> >
> > I've been asking myself why there's this thing called "8139too" .. Why
> > is there such double?? That's kind funny, not to mention that 8139too is
> > kinda slow in my HP EN1207d-TX 10/100
> >
> > Is this argument true that 8139too changes are pointless and flawed? Can
> > anybody confirm this please ->
> > http://www.scyld.com/network/rtl8139.html#8139too
>
> In my humble opinion, they are not flawed :)
>
> There are several people for which rtl8139 does not work at all, and
> this driver includes workarounds and fixes for that. There is both an
> SMP race in the Tx routine (reported to Donald Becker several times), a
> bug fix for when Tx errors occur (reported to Becker), and additional Rx
> handling that users report is needed. In addition, using MMIO is faster
> for many newer computers, even with the additional read after each
> write.
--
Jason Straight
