From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed May 18 06:36:31 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FA8F16A4D0 for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:31 +0000 (GMT) Received: from relay.rdsnet.ro (smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro [62.231.74.133]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 10C0D43D1F for ; Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from itetcu@apropo.ro) Received: (qmail 13451 invoked from network); 18 May 2005 06:28:44 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO smtp.rdsnet.ro) (62.231.74.130) by smtp1-133.rdsnet.ro with SMTP; 18 May 2005 06:28:44 -0000 Received: (qmail 11970 invoked by uid 89); 18 May 2005 06:50:22 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO it.buh.tecnik93.com) (81.196.204.98) by 0 with SMTP; 18 May 2005 06:50:22 -0000 Received: from it.buh.tecnik93.com (localhost.buh.tecnik93.com [127.0.0.1]) by it.buh.tecnik93.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C3DC114C3; Wed, 18 May 2005 09:36:26 +0300 (EEST) Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:36:08 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" Message-ID: <20050518093608.2afca5b3@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: References: <961ed0460505172234227e246e@mail.gmail.com> X-Mailer: Sylpheed-Claws 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i386-portbld-freebsd5.4) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org cc: Dana Baguley Subject: Re: 3C905B-TX problems on fresh install X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 06:36:31 -0000 On Tue, 17 May 2005 22:44:38 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" 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"