Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:50:45 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste <vallo@matti.ee> To: Scott Bolte <Scott.Bolte@med.ge.com> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Why is DFE-530 NIC identified as rl0 instead of vr0? Message-ID: <20000204195045.A1917@myhakas.matti.ee> In-Reply-To: <200002041330.HAA01171@cirque.gso.med.ge.com>; from Scott Bolte on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:30:28AM -0600 References: <200002041330.HAA01171@cirque.gso.med.ge.com>
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On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:30:28AM -0600, Scott Bolte <bolte@gsao.gso.med.ge.com> wrote: > I recently bought a D-link DFE-530TX+ NIC that is misidentified > under FreeBSD 3.4. In HARDWARE.TXT it is claimed that the > DFE-530 should be a vr0 (VIA VT3043/VT86C100A PCI based cards) > but the on-boot probe identifies it as rl0 (RealTek 8129/8139 > fast ethernet). > > The card's docs don't say what chip it uses, and the chip > labels do not clearly identified what they are. Can anyone > speculate if the probe routine is broken, or has D-link > switched hardware? If they have switched chips, is there any > substantial difference between them? > > P.S. Btw, the card seems pretty CPU hungry at 100baseTX. Would > that be true of an Intel Pro/100+ or a 3Com EtherLink > 10/100 too? Accordingly to the various lists, the 530TX and TX+ are different. My 530TX really use vr driver. The TX+ is an Realtek 8139, the worst 100Mbit NIC in the market now. The other cards you mentioned get far less CPU power to operate in 100Mbit mode so.. you have the choice :) -- Vallo Kallaste vallo@matti.ee To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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