From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 9 18:26:25 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from listproc.corp.loudcloud.com (olly.loudcloud.com [208.50.142.100]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 098E437B424 for ; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:26:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from seanp@loudcloud.com) Received: from loudcloud.com (grover.geek.loudcloud.com [192.168.0.253]) by listproc.corp.loudcloud.com (8.11.3/8.10.1) with ESMTP id f3A1QH203777; Mon, 9 Apr 2001 18:26:18 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <3AD26391.1547F204@loudcloud.com> Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 18:36:18 -0700 From: Sean Peck X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.74 [en] (Windows NT 5.0; U) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: David Kelly Cc: Larry Librettez , Gunther Schadow , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? References: <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Why would you use RL? There is a driver in 3.3 specificlly for the TX the "vr".. at least it looks like it is for this NIC. David Kelly wrote: > 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 -- Finish the deployment... We'll buy you a new family. The three most dangerous things are: 1) a programmer with a soldering iron 2) a manager who codes 3) a user who gets ideas. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message