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Date:      Thu, 28 Jan 1999 17:08:39 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Rod Taylor <oscentral@usa.net>
Cc:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Ne2000 PCI Card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.05.9901281704550.81323-100000@bright.fx.genx.net>
In-Reply-To: <199901282223.RAA32294@speed.rcc.on.ca>

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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.
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