Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 06:13:53 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Greg Lehey" <grog@lemis.com>, "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com> Cc: <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: RE: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Message-ID: <011001c0cfe5$12a77a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <20010428113639.B69945@wantadilla.lemis.com>
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>-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG]On Behalf Of Greg Lehey >messages, such as ARP requests. Bill added a fix for it, and we have >seen no problems since. It's quite possible that the RealTek driver >has similar issues. > I wonder, though. It would seem to me that the RealTek cards are _so_ cheap that the manufacturers using those chipsets are all simply using the "suggested design schematic" and the sample device driver that comes from RealTek. For a deviation of the card to exist would imply that the card manufacturers are actually spending money on hardware and software design. That's assuming a lot for a card that usually sells for less than $9 USD I would think that there would be more chance of this sort of trouble with motherboard manufacturers that decide to embed the RealTek chip on their boards. Ted Mittelstaedt tedm@toybox.placo.com Author of: The FreeBSD Corporate Networker's Guide Book website: http://www.freebsd-corp-net-guide.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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