From owner-freebsd-hardware Thu Jul 9 16:42:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16893 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:42:51 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from geo.geocast.net (geo.geocast.net [128.177.240.120]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id QAA16884 for ; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:42:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from castor@geocast.net) Received: from localhost (castor@localhost) by geo.geocast.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA22046; Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:42:26 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 9 Jul 1998 16:42:23 -0700 (PDT) From: Castor Fu To: Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek-based Ethernet chipsets In-Reply-To: <199807091433.WAA18942@ariadne.tensor.pgs.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > They claim to have RTL8139 chips set that'll do 100Mbs in a PCI card. This is > sold under the Skymaster name. Anybody have a clue if they're compatible with > any of our drivers? The doco on the web site > > http://www.realtek.com.tw/cn/NEW/doc/RTL8139-new.htm is an EXE file, > extracting out into a PDF file. I don't have a DOS box anywhere close by to > extract it. I'm pretty sure FreeBSD doesn't support it. I bought one of these for $20 at Fry's because I figured it'd be more of a pain to go back and get it, but it didn't autoconfig. Don Becker's group at NASA has a driver for Linux and he has a number of comments about how this is NOT something to get if you're at all interested in performance. I'd say spend the extra $15 and get a Netgear card which uses the DEC Tulip chipset if you're scrimping or spend $50 and get an Intel EtherExpress. This driver is for boards based on the RTL8129 and RTL8139 PCI ethernet chips. The author may be reached as becker@CESDIS.gsfc.nasa.gov, or C/O Center of Excellence in Space Data and Information Sciences Code 930.5, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt MD 20771 Support and updates available at http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/drivers/rtl8139.html To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message