From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Aug 23 13:53:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.urx.com (mail.urx.com [63.170.19.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DFC4537B409 for ; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:53:07 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from kstewart@urx.com) Received: from urx.com [206.159.132.160] by mail.urx.com with ESMTP (SMTPD32-6.06) id AD2C2CBD0048; Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:53:00 -0700 Message-ID: <3B856D2C.30E7BE94@urx.com> Date: Thu, 23 Aug 2001 13:53:00 -0700 From: Kent Stewart Reply-To: kstewart@urx.com Organization: Dynacom X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Christopher Estes Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: A Few Questions on the DFE-530TX+ rev. D ethernet nic References: <282367.998597512393.JavaMail.cpadmin@piper> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Christopher Estes wrote: > > > I have a dfe-530tx+ with the family on the box (rev. d) and i have > > > > looked in the archives for this group for info on getting it to work > in > > > > fbsd 4.3 . > > > > i found PR25640 and patched my if_rl.c and if_rlreh.h files (i think, > i > > > > just tacked the text onto the end of each file) but im not sure what > im > > > > supposed to do to my kernel when i recompile it (if that is what im > > > > supposed to do). i am running generic kernel with nothing commented > > > > out. I would also like to add that while i was looking in the archives > > > > i saw a few references to this type of card or this chipset or > > > > something being "the worst kind on the market". Would i be better off > > > > just going out and getting a different card? thanks for any help on > > > > this subject. > > > > > > Adding the code at the end isn't going to work. Much of the changes is > > > adding recognition code for the new parts. If you can't cvsup to > -stable, I > > > would grab the RELENG_4 versions of those two modules from > > > http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/. I have a friend in > > > California that fixed his system by just replacing the modules on his > system > > > and building a new system. > > > > > > Once he updated his system, he didn't have any problems using the rl > driver. > > > > Thanks, I got the files and recompiled my generic kernel and its > recognized in my dmesg now. > however if anyone has any info on how this card stacks up to others i > would be interested. if i can get a better/faster card just by spending > a few extra $ i probably would. (this one only cost me $12) > thanks Sorry about the bad fold. I hadn't notice this system was set to fold on 76 characters. It depends on where you use it. I have a D-Link between my FreeBSD gateway/firewall and my DSL modem. I don't think it matters there. I tested a few NICs a while back and Intel 100+'s gave me typically 2 MB/s or more over 3Com905?'s. Neither sell the version I have installed. They have all been upgraded (?). Kent -- Kent Stewart Richland, WA It is hard to believe you are soaring with Eagles (los águilas) when you accept SPAM like a mouse (el ratón). mailto:kbstew99@hotmail.com http://kstewart.urx.com/kstewart/index.html FreeBSD News http://daily.daemonnews.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message