From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 18: 9:58 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from grumpy.dyndns.org (user-24-214-76-236.knology.net [24.214.76.236]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0B51B37B422 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:09:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by grumpy.dyndns.org (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f3A19XP30889; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 20:09:33 -0500 (CDT) (envelope-from dkelly@grumpy.dyndns.org) Message-Id: <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: Larry Librettez Cc: Gunther Schadow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: David Kelly Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? In-reply-to: Message from Larry Librettez of "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 13:36:57 PDT." <20010409203657.69702.qmail@web13204.mail.yahoo.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:09:33 -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Larry Librettez writes: > I have several D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC's > living on my network. They have never let me down the > 2 years I've used them. Can be had for $19.99 at > CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. I've seen them > for as low as $14.99 on sale. > > It uses the Realtek 8139 chip and in LINT the device > driver is 'rl'. Have you ever read /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c? [...] /* * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. * [...] Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of pulled Intel 10/100's and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as did the other 6 purchased by those looking over my shoulder. At one time knew of a vendor selling tested pulls for $25 on the net. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message