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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:56:37 GMT
From:      efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley)
To:        Richard Goh <accel@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        "Timothy M. Hughes" <tim@usgcc.odu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card
Message-ID:  <359ae341.2257050@afnetinc.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04003a03b1ba42f5a191@[210.24.242.127]>
References:  <v04003a03b1ba42f5a191@[210.24.242.127]>

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On Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:37:03 +0800, you wrote:

I was unable to get my 8129 to work... Had to go back to the 8029..

>HI,
>Has anyone got the driver to work yet?
>Just bought an Advantech panel pc thinking that "NE2000 compatible"  was
>all i needed.
>Needless to say, countless rebuilds later .....
>
>Thanks for any tips.
>Rgds
>Richard
>
>
>
>On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:
>
>> On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:04:15AM -0500, Timothy M. Hughes wrote:
>> > Has anyone got one of these things to work yet??  I mailed
>> > questions@freebsd.org and got a response that it was "probably" a
>> > proprietary driver.  If you have a driver or have gotten it to work,
>> > please email me directly (I dont subscibe).
>>
>> RealTek is fairly good at supporting free OSes (even sometimes writing
>> drivers themselves).
>>
>> I don't think you should have a problem getting info from them, but it
>> is probably correct that it is a properitary chip (probably with an
>> almost complete clone of the interface of a popular chipset, so making
>> drivers work should be easy).
>
>Unlike the 8019/8029 (which are NE2000 clones), the 8129/8139 appear to
>be their own design and not compatible with anything else.  However,
>datasheets that look complete enough to write a driver are available on
>their website (www.realtek.com.tw), and there also exists a Linux driver
>to crib from (see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/100mbs.html )
>
>[Sorry if you see two copies of this - I think I killed the one with an
>incorrect URL, but it may have escaped]
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