Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 13:43:18 -0700 From: Flemming =?iso-8859-1?Q?Fr=F8kj=E6r?= <flemming@froekjaer.org> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <4.1.20010409134201.0228c418@sleipner.eiffel.dk> In-Reply-To: <20010409203657.69702.qmail@web13204.mail.yahoo.com> References: <3AD21AE1.F715330E@aurora.regenstrief.org>
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At 01:36 PM 4/9/2001 -0700, you wrote: >I have several D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC's >living on my network. They have never let me down the >2 years I've used them. Can be had for $19.99 at >CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. I've seen them >for as low as $14.99 on sale. > >It uses the Realtek 8139 chip and in LINT the device >driver is 'rl'. From the drivers Source /* * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. * To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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