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Date:      Mon, 29 Jun 1998 11:21:08 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@hotjobs.com>
To:        Richard Goh <accel@pacific.net.sg>
Cc:        "Timothy M. Hughes" <tim@usgcc.odu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.980629112012.299A-100000@bright.ny.otec.com>
In-Reply-To: <v04003a03b1ba42f5a191@[210.24.242.127]>

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device ed0 at pci?

in your kernel config, worked for me, but i don't rember my chipset.
or whatever isa card it is kinda like. it might just work.

-Alfred

On Sat, 27 Jun 1998, Richard Goh wrote:

> HI,
> Has anyone got the driver to work yet?
> Just bought an Advantech panel pc thinking that "NE2000 compatible"  was
> all i needed.
> Needless to say, countless rebuilds later .....
> 
> Thanks for any tips.
> Rgds
> Richard
> 
> 
> 
> On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:04:15AM -0500, Timothy M. Hughes wrote:
> > > Has anyone got one of these things to work yet??  I mailed
> > > questions@freebsd.org and got a response that it was "probably" a
> > > proprietary driver.  If you have a driver or have gotten it to work,
> > > please email me directly (I dont subscibe).
> >
> > RealTek is fairly good at supporting free OSes (even sometimes writing
> > drivers themselves).
> >
> > I don't think you should have a problem getting info from them, but it
> > is probably correct that it is a properitary chip (probably with an
> > almost complete clone of the interface of a popular chipset, so making
> > drivers work should be easy).
> 
> Unlike the 8019/8029 (which are NE2000 clones), the 8129/8139 appear to
> be their own design and not compatible with anything else.  However,
> datasheets that look complete enough to write a driver are available on
> their website (www.realtek.com.tw), and there also exists a Linux driver
> to crib from (see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/100mbs.html )
> 
> [Sorry if you see two copies of this - I think I killed the one with an
> incorrect URL, but it may have escaped]
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