From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Feb 4 11:14: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from solaris.matti.ee (solaris.matti.ee [194.126.98.135]) by builder.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B4A963E75 for ; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 11:12:59 -0800 (PST) Received: from myhakas.matti.ee (myhakas.matti.ee [194.126.114.87]) by solaris.matti.ee (Postfix) with ESMTP id F39352CE4E; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:50:40 +0200 (EET) Received: by myhakas.matti.ee (Postfix, from userid 1000) id E6253F3; Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:50:45 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 4 Feb 2000 19:50:45 +0200 From: Vallo Kallaste To: Scott Bolte 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> Reply-To: vallo@matti.ee References: <200002041330.HAA01171@cirque.gso.med.ge.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.95.6i In-Reply-To: <200002041330.HAA01171@cirque.gso.med.ge.com>; from Scott Bolte on Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:30:28AM -0600 Organization: =?iso-8859-1?Q?AS_Matti_B=FCrootehnika?= Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Fri, Feb 04, 2000 at 07:30:28AM -0600, Scott Bolte 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