From owner-freebsd-hackers Thu Feb 1 20:43:33 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from harmony.village.org (rover.village.org [204.144.255.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CBDD237B4EC for ; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 20:43:15 -0800 (PST) Received: from harmony.village.org (localhost.village.org [127.0.0.1]) by harmony.village.org (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f124h7936044; Thu, 1 Feb 2001 21:43:07 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from imp@harmony.village.org) Message-Id: <200102020443.f124h7936044@harmony.village.org> To: Coleman Kane Subject: Re: Realtek card support Cc: "Koster, K.J." , "'so@server.i-clue.de'" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 01 Feb 2001 23:54:10 EST." <20010201235410.A58975@cokane.yi.org> References: <20010201235410.A58975@cokane.yi.org> <59063B5B4D98D311BC0D0001FA7E4522026D7B95@l04.research.kpn.com> <200102020035.f120Z7934612@harmony.village.org> Date: Thu, 01 Feb 2001 21:43:07 -0700 From: Warner Losh Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <20010201235410.A58975@cokane.yi.org> Coleman Kane writes: : 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. Same here. However, with the SBCs we buy, we have little choice since they all seem to want to use RealTek. Likely due to bottom feeding reasons. I've also had good luck with 3Com NICs (use one in my main home server), but mixed luck with some Tulip and tulip-like clones. The dc driver does help that a lot, however... Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message