Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:58:22 +0100 From: Christoph Sold <so@server.i-clue.de> To: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com> Cc: "'so@server.i-clue.de'" <so@server.ms-agentur.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek card support Message-ID: <3A78361E.C8E6F66C@i-clue.de> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B95@l04.research.kpn.com>
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"Koster, K.J." schrieb: > > > > > > 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. > > > I had the line drop away from under me when I used this card in two PC's > with a crosscable. I did an NFS-based FreeBSD install, but I had to replace > the card before I was able to install the whole thing. > > What version of FreeBSD are you using? $ uname -a FreeBSD amnesix.XXXXXX.XX 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 16 09:33:35 CET 2001 root@amnesix.XXXXXX.XX:/usr/src/sys/compile/AMNESIX-4.2-S i386 and $ uname -a FreeBSD miraculix.i-clue.de 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 5 18:27:5 0 CET 2001 so@miraculix.i-clue.de:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 (That's a RTL8139C in there) HTH -Christoph Sold To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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