Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
In message , Alfred Perlstein writes > >On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > >> I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset >> (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. > >...snip > >> Tried to get help in #freebsd in efnet, but no-one had suggestions that >> helped me... (Thanks anyhow Xanne) > >compile a kernel with: > >device rl0 > >that should work, and if you want to know why the cards are so cheap: > >/usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c > >wpaul explains it quite well. :) > >Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com >-- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. >-- http://www.freebsd.org/4.0-current > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message I had similar problems with I think the same card - certainly realtek Either I had PNP modem working or ed1 realtek ethenet card Problem was in the end in my BIOS, I had to enable all ports as PNP/PCI as opposed to ISA/EISA and enable OS is PNP aware - AMI BIOS 1998 OK now, however I am having a few network problems but I do not think that this could be the cause -- Tim Preece To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
On Thu, Jan 28, 1999 at 10:33:20PM -0600, Bruce Albrecht wrote: > performance at 10 Mbps, but it's a real dog at 100 Mbps. I'm only > able to achieve 45-50 Mbps throughput with a dual P6-200 machine, and > it uses nearly 30% of the CPU to do it. Hmm.. We tried the cards here and got ca 9MB/s over crosslinked 266Mhz Celerons. Well, the CPU load is quite high, about same you indicated. For testing we used netperf from the ports. -- Vallo Kallaste va...@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
Rod Taylor writes: > I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset > (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. > > I've attempted to use both cards in several PCI slots, under 2.2.8 and 3.0 > boot floppies, and a 3.0-stable (updated 2 days ago). None of these > releases found either card in any situation. > > I believe the card should be detected as Ed0 (possibly ed1). I have used > 3com pci cards in both machines under freebsd sucessfully and the ne2000 > cards function under windows and os/2. The RealTek 8139 chipset is supported with the rl0 driver, and has been supported since 3.0 was released. Bill Paul is the maintainer of the driver. I think the GENERIC kernel should have been able to find them. I've got a 8139 based NIC, and I have no complaints about its performance at 10 Mbps, but it's a real dog at 100 Mbps. I'm only able to achieve 45-50 Mbps throughput with a dual P6-200 machine, and it uses nearly 30% of the CPU to do it. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset > (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. ...snip > Tried to get help in #freebsd in efnet, but no-one had suggestions that > helped me... (Thanks anyhow Xanne) compile a kernel with: device rl0 that should work, and if you want to know why the cards are so cheap: /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c wpaul explains it quite well. :) Alfred Perlstein - Programmer, HotJobs Inc. - www.hotjobs.com -- There are operating systems, and then there's FreeBSD. -- http://www.freebsd.org/4.0-current To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rod Taylor wrote: > I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset > (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. > > I've attempted to use both cards in several PCI slots, under 2.2.8 and 3.0 > boot floppies, and a 3.0-stable (updated 2 days ago). None of these > releases found either card in any situation. > > I believe the card should be detected as Ed0 (possibly ed1). I have used > 3com pci cards in both machines under freebsd sucessfully and the ne2000 > cards function under windows and os/2. Try the rl0 driver: On my system: rl0: rev 0x10 int a irq 12 on pci0.9.0 -- Brian Buchanan br...@csua.berkeley.edu -- FreeBSD - The Power to Serve! http://www.freebsd.org daemon(n): 1. an attendant power or spirit : GENIUS 2. the cute little mascot of the FreeBSD operating system To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
> I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset > (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. They are supported in 4.0-CURRENT by the rl driver. I belive they are also included in 3.0-STABLE, but I'm not sure if they are on the boot floppy. And before using this card, you should consider the following comment from the driver source: * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. So don't expect too much ;) Blaz Zupan, b...@medinet.si, http://home.amis.net/blaz Medinet d.o.o., Linhartova 21, 2000 Maribor, Slovenia To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
Ne2000 PCI Card
I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only). Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset (from the best that I can tell). Both are PCI. I've attempted to use both cards in several PCI slots, under 2.2.8 and 3.0 boot floppies, and a 3.0-stable (updated 2 days ago). None of these releases found either card in any situation. I believe the card should be detected as Ed0 (possibly ed1). I have used 3com pci cards in both machines under freebsd sucessfully and the ne2000 cards function under windows and os/2. What can I do? If someone wants to see, I'm willing to give root to a person who wishes to help fix this problem (or make appropriate additions to the driver). Have any changes been applied to 4.0-current which may solve my situation? Tried to get help in #freebsd in efnet, but no-one had suggestions that helped me... (Thanks anyhow Xanne) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majord...@freebsd.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
