Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:24:38 +0200 From: "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com> To: tedm@toybox.placo.com, grog@lemis.com Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: RE: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Message-ID: <F19eSOzNCWbzwWJv3zO00007f66@hotmail.com>
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>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. Right you are, for the most part the only difference is the label on the driver disk, and possibly the driver version number. > >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. Any motherboard manufacturer wanting to integrate a RealTek chip on their board would have to be extremely dumb. Under very high loads, they burn off like there's no tomorrow. We had a delivery of 3COM cards become delayed, and for a weekend had to do with some RealTek 8139s...not a success. We blew four within the first 12 hours, and come Monday a whole seven were dead. Now it might have been that particular manufacturers fault, but man... Cheers, Munish _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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