Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 09:36:37 -0200 (BRDT) From: Rik van Riel <riel@conectiva.com.br> 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: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0102020927210.1321-100000@duckman.distro.conectiva> In-Reply-To: <200102020035.f120Z7934612@harmony.village.org>
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On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > We've had horrible luck with the realtek 8139 with a few of our > 10MBps hubs. I've seen the same problem here. My 8139 card is currently going to the switch at 100Mbit/s, which runs stable with Linux 2.4.0, even on my BP6 ;) However, because of a lack of network sockets a while ago, I put a 10Mbit hub in between so I could "split" the network socket for my test machine too. While communication between my machines on the hub continued to work, it managed to block the port on the switch so hard that we had to powercycle it. This happened with 2 different kinds of hubs we tried and doesn't happen when we use the same hubs with other network cards. Conclusion: 8139 can cause hours and hours more "fun" then what you've bargained for... (OTOH, I'm still using the card on my SMP box with no problems at all ... but at least I've experienced how fragile the setup of this thing is) regards, Rik -- Linux MM bugzilla: http://linux-mm.org/bugzilla.shtml Virtual memory is like a game you can't win; However, without VM there's truly nothing to lose... http://www.surriel.com/ http://www.conectiva.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message
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