On Tue, 17 May 2005 22:44:38 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The RealTek 8139 is also an iffy card, but not in the same way > the 3c905 is. With the 3c905 you have a lot of timing/driver > issues to where you get different results depending on what > motherboard your using it in. With the Realtek, they always work > from that standpoint, the problem is that sometimes their autodetection > goes haywire and you have to hard-code them to a specific speed > and duplex in your ifconfig statement. They also don't have an > optimal register setup and so consume more CPU to get data in and out > of the card. You wouldn't use one in a FreeBSD router, but other > than that, they are fine under FreeBSD. I use about 3 or 4 of them > myself. And some of the rl cards (the older ones from my experience) have the nasty habit of blocking themselves after some time. I have a cron job the ifconfigs down and up each 4 hours to resolve that. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user" _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
