From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 9:13:37 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.nortenet.pt (mar.nortenet.pt [212.13.32.243]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB1CF37B42C for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:13:29 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from guilherme@nortenet.pt) Received: from nortenet.pt (v1-pppS59.nortenet.pt [212.13.32.59]) by mail.nortenet.pt (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f3QGC0C15701 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:12:00 +0100 Message-ID: <3AE848EB.70E29C11@nortenet.pt> Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:12:27 +0100 From: Guilherme Oliveira X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.2.19 i586) X-Accept-Language: pt, pt-BR, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 very slow ! References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Munish Chopra wrote: > > 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. But I saw some people in this list with a 8139 too, so I thaught it was fixed. Those people: your card is working fast ? I dont' have HUB. How ? Tnx ! []'s To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message