From owner-freebsd-questions Sat Apr 28 15:37: 3 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 1A95137B43C for ; Sat, 28 Apr 2001 15:36:59 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from grog@lemis.com) Received: by wantadilla.lemis.com (Postfix, from userid 1004) id AE41A6ACBC; Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:06:57 +0930 (CST) Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 08:06:57 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Ted Mittelstaedt Cc: Munish Chopra , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 NIC and IRQ problem. Message-ID: <20010429080657.S69945@wantadilla.lemis.com> References: <20010428113639.B69945@wantadilla.lemis.com> <011001c0cfe5$12a77a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: <011001c0cfe5$12a77a40$1401a8c0@tedm.placo.com>; from tedm@toybox.placo.com on Sat, Apr 28, 2001 at 06:13:53AM -0700 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 Saturday, 28 April 2001 at 6:13:53 -0700, Ted Mittelstaedt wrote: >> -----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. Sure. Same thing with the Macronix. I think I paid $20 for the cards. But the difference isn't in the schematic, it's in the (cheaper) chip. Most of these cards have only one chip on them. > For a deviation of the card to exist would imply that the card > manufacturers are actually spending money on hardware and software > design. No, that's an assumption. > That's assuming a lot for a card that usually sells for less than $9 > USD Hmm. That *is* cheap. Is this a 10 Mb/s or a 100 Mb/s card? 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