From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Jan 31 7:57:25 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 22ECE37B65D for ; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 07:56:58 -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 SAA11706; Wed, 31 Jan 2001 18:04:41 +0100 Message-ID: <3A78361E.C8E6F66C@i-clue.de> Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2001 16:58:22 +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: "'so@server.i-clue.de'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek card support References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B95@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: > > > > > > 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