From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 2:52: 9 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from bryden.apana.org.au (bryden.apana.org.au [203.3.126.129]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38AAE37B42C for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 02:52:03 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Received: from oracle (CPE-61-9-143-80.vic.bigpond.net.au [61.9.143.80]) by bryden.apana.org.au (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id TAA10495; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:51:01 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au) Message-ID: <047201c0ce36$83499f90$0400a8c0@oracle> From: "Doug Young" To: "Scot" , References: Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 19:51:45 +1000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2462.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2462.0000 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > I'm not sub'd to the list, so if you have any thoughts I'd appreciate a CC > to me, if that's not standard procedure. And yes, I know it's a > fabulously cheap NIC, but for my limited needs it should be more than > adequate. I notice at least one recent contributor bagging the RealTek 8139 (with good reason) Personally I make a point of never purchasing el junko hardware, unfortunately a client acquired several of those disasters for a panic job recently & they sure lived up to their reputation !!!! GRRRRRRRRRRRR The previous time I encountered them they were purchased by an accountant (yes well .... I know one can't expect much from a beancounter). After a few days of network connectivity problems it wasn't difficult to convince the "powers that be" that it just might be a good idea to have someone technically qualified specify what hardware would be purchased in the future. I'd love to find the moron who designed the abortions & commit certain grievous bodily events against them :) The real net worth of those things is around 5% of their wholesale price (and thats being kind to them) To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message