From owner-freebsd-current Thu Jan 28 20:35:42 1999 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id UAA17147 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:35:42 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from abby.skypoint.net (abby.skypoint.net [199.86.32.252]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA17135 for ; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 20:35:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bruce@zuhause.mn.org) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by abby.skypoint.net (8.8.7/jl 1.3) with UUCP id WAA11222; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:35:37 -0600 (CST) Received: (from bruce@localhost) by zuhause.mn.org (8.9.2/8.9.1) id WAA29005; Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:33:20 -0600 (CST) (envelope-from bruce) From: Bruce Albrecht MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14001.14864.712443.443655@zuhause.zuhause.mn.org> Date: Thu, 28 Jan 1999 22:33:20 -0600 (CST) To: oscentral@usa.net (Rod Taylor) Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Ne2000 PCI Card In-Reply-To: <199901282223.RAA32294@speed.rcc.on.ca> References: <199901282223.RAA32294@speed.rcc.on.ca> X-Mailer: VM 6.62 under 20.4 "Emerald" XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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 majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message