From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 0:58:49 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from hotmail.com (f47.law4.hotmail.com [216.33.149.47]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id BA2D237B422 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:58:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from messiah_man@hotmail.com) Received: from mail pickup service by hotmail.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 00:58:46 -0700 Received: from 130.225.197.29 by lw4fd.law4.hotmail.msn.com with HTTP; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 07:58:46 GMT X-Originating-IP: [130.225.197.29] From: "Munish Chopra" To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 very slow ! Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:58:46 +0200 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed Message-ID: X-OriginalArrivalTime: 26 Apr 2001 07:58:46.0627 (UTC) FILETIME=[B8866B30:01C0CE26] Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG The RealTek 8139 is generally regarded to be one of the worst ethernet cards ever made. The design seems like it was pulled straight out of a goat's ass. The guy who wrote the driver (forget his name) put something like this in the source code for the driver: "This card re-defines the meaning of 'low end'...". It IS incredibly cheap though, and supported by almost any platform. It's most likely not a driver issue either. Since it's so cheap, many people have it, so this bug would probably already have been caught. The card is too dumb to auto-configure itself properly for full/half duplex or 10/100 though, so you might want to explicitly set that in /etc/rc.conf...that usually helps. Cheers, Munish _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message