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Loren M. Lang wrote:

> For example, I recently ran across the
> problem that my realtek 10/100 nic is not supported under the freebsd
> kernel, but it is very supported under linux for some time now.  

You have a lot of unsupported hardware under freebsd.
Is this your realtec nic ?


rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem
0xdfffff00-0xdfffffff irq 18 at device 19.0 on pci0
miibus1: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus1
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto