Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:54:10 -0500 From: Coleman Kane <cokane@micro.ti.com> To: Warner Losh <imp@harmony.village.org> Cc: "Koster, K.J." <K.J.Koster@kpn.com>, "'so@server.i-clue.de'" <so@server.i-clue.de>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek card support Message-ID: <20010201235410.A58975@cokane.yi.org> In-Reply-To: <200102020035.f120Z7934612@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500 References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B95@l04.research.kpn.com> <200102020035.f120Z7934612@harmony.village.org>
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I usually don't recommend the 8139/29 for anything that is expected to work consistently. The cards work alright, but I prefer to stick to Digital or Intel based NICs for important tasks. Warner Losh had the audacity to say: > > We've had horrible luck with the realtek 8139 with a few of our 10MBps > hubs. We've had OK luck with cross over cables, but not good enough > to run with that configuration in our deployed systems. > > We've also found that this is due to autonegotiation is the cause of > this and that if we explicitly choose 10BaseT it works well enough to > deploy in our systems. > > Warner > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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