From owner-freebsd-hardware Mon Jun 29 12:00:19 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id MAA15450 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from thor.afnetinc.com ([207.179.61.193]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id LAA15192; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:59:27 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from efinley@castlenet.com) Received: from di-r1.afnetinc.com (di-r1.afnetinc.com [207.179.61.196]) by thor.afnetinc.com (8.8.8/8.8.7) with SMTP id MAA05204; Mon, 29 Jun 1998 12:56:34 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from efinley@castlenet.com) From: efinley@castlenet.com (Elliot Finley) To: Richard Goh Cc: "Timothy M. Hughes" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card Date: Mon, 29 Jun 1998 18:56:37 GMT Organization: Hiawatha Coal Company Reply-To: efinley@castlenet.com Message-ID: <359ae341.2257050@afnetinc.com> References: In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Forte Agent 1.5/32.451 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by hub.freebsd.org id LAA15215 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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] > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > > > > >www@freebsd.org > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > -- Later Science (efinley@castlenet.com) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message