From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Apr 26 17:20:51 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from wantadilla.lemis.com (wantadilla.lemis.com [192.109.197.80]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7803A37B424 for ; Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:20:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id 0FF156ACBD; Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:50:46 +0930 (CST) Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2001 09:50:46 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Doug Young Cc: Scot , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Message-ID: <20010427095045.C34609@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <047201c0ce36$83499f90$0400a8c0@oracle> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <047201c0ce36$83499f90$0400a8c0@oracle>; from dougy@bryden.apana.org.au on Thu, Apr 26, 2001 at 07:51:45PM +1000 Organization: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8286 Fax: +61-8-8388-8725 Mobile: +61-418-838-708 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog X-PGP-Fingerprint: 6B 7B C3 8C 61 CD 54 AF 13 24 52 F8 6D A4 95 EF Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thursday, 26 April 2001 at 19:51:45 +1000, Doug Young wrote: >> 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. One of the best Ethernet cards I know is the Intel EtherExpress. In the Linux world, however, it has a very poor reputation. The real culprit appears to be the Linux driver. I wonder how good our RealTek driver is. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key See complete headers for address and phone numbers To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message