From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 9 17:04:09 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CE42316A4BF for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:04:09 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gateway.soekris.com (adsl-68-122-44-73.dsl.pltn13.pacbell.net [68.122.44.73]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 85DB543FE5 for ; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 17:04:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Received: from soekris.com (1.4.soekris.com [192.168.1.4] (may be forged)) by gateway.soekris.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id h89Jxat25879; Tue, 9 Sep 2003 12:59:36 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from soren@soekris.com) Message-ID: <3F5E30B2.1020400@soekris.com> Date: Tue, 09 Sep 2003 12:57:38 -0700 From: Soren Kristensen Organization: Soekris Engineering User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 (ax) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en, da MIME-Version: 1.0 To: FreeBSD-Lis References: <5.1.1.6.2.20030909190546.00b28930@pop3.zaleo.homeunix.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.1.6.2.20030909190546.00b28930@pop3.zaleo.homeunix.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org cc: Li Zeng Subject: Re: Looking for RealTek 8139c+ based NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2003 00:04:09 -0000 Hi, FreeBSD-Lis wrote: > Dear Li Zeng, > > This is a chipset not a brand, a lot of manufactures are using RealTec > chipset's.. > My advice don't use a Realtec based NIC, it resolves in a lot of > collisions and there are some auto negotiating problems with this dual > speed card. (Drops down to 10Mbit and sometimes you have to reconnect > the cable to let it work after a reboot) > > This is a Windows Box orientated chipset, FreeBSD simply over load this > chipset. Be aware the the specific 8139C+ actually don't have much in common with the older Realtek 8139 chips.... The + version is a much more advanced new version with real descripter based buffer management and IP/TCP checksum offload. I'm actually also considering it for some projects, and wouldn't mind if I could locate a board with it for testing.... Regards, Soren > Kind Regards, > Zeo Smeijsters > > At 11:43 9-9-2003 -0400, you wrote: > >> Hi Bill Paul, >> >> I am looking for Realtek 8139c+ NIC for my project. I learnt from >> freebsd.org website that you have gotten a sample 8139c+ NIC. I just >> wonder who sells this card and what is the card's model. I'd >> appreciate it if you could tell me. >> >> Regards, >> >> Li Zeng >> Software Developer, >> Perfisans Networks >> lzeng@perfisans.com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > > -- > Zeo Smeijsters > http://www.zaleo.homeunix.net/ > http://www.zaleo.nl. > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hardware > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-hardware-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > . >