From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 20:42:20 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from www.evil.2y.net (ip-216-23-55-121.adsl.one.net [216.23.55.121]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DF02D37B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:42:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from cokane@localhost) by www.evil.2y.net (8.11.2/8.11.1) id f124sAE59042; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:54:10 -0500 (EST) (envelope-from cokane) Date: Thu, 1 Feb 2001 23:54:10 -0500 From: Coleman Kane To: Warner Losh Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'so@server.i-clue.de'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek card support Message-ID: <20010201235410.A58975@cokane.yi.org> References: <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B95@l04.research.kpn.com> <200102020035.f120Z7934612@harmony.village.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 1.0.1i In-Reply-To: <200102020035.f120Z7934612@harmony.village.org>; from imp@harmony.village.org on Thu, Feb 01, 2001 at 07:35:47PM -0500 X-Vim: vim:tw=70:ts=4:sw=4 Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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