From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 7:36:56 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from gekko.i-clue.de (server.ms-agentur.de [62.153.134.194]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2399037B4EC for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:36:38 -0800 (PST) Received: from i-clue.de (automatix.i-clue.de [192.168.0.112]) by gekko.i-clue.de (8.9.3/8.9.3/SuSE Linux 8.9.3-0.1) with ESMTP id RAA11283; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 17:44:15 +0100 Message-ID: <3A783152.DD2FDD00@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:37:54 +0100 From: Christoph Sold Reply-To: so@server.i-clue.de X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.75 [de] (WinNT; U) X-Accept-Language: de MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Koster, K.J." Cc: "'Luigi Rizzo'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek card support References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B94@l04.research.kpn.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG "Koster, K.J." schrieb: > > > > > > > > > I have two RealTek network cards that I'm willing to send > > > to someone who is > > > going to update the FreeBSD realtek driver to support them. > > > > > > > what card is that and what is broken ? > > both the ne and the rl driver works reasonably well with the 8029 > > and 8139 chips. > > > This particular card is branded "TP-Link", chip reads RTL8139B. > > It detects, configures and runs for a while, but drops the line after a > while. (PPTP to my ADSL modem) I got exactly this chip (RTL8139b) on a Realtek card working here 24/7 since about two months. I also got problems with dropped lines, but this is because the ISDN "modem" drops the connection when the line quality gets too bad. With a previous ISDN "modem" the darn box went into jabber mode, the only thing helping after that was power cycling the "modem", then ifconfig rl0 down; ifconfig rl0 up again. After changing the "modem" to a small CISCO 1000, the line is stable. No, I don't know what ISDN terminal adapter was dubbed "modem" by German Telekom, it had only Telekom printed all over its face. HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message