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Date:      Fri, 16 Apr 2004 10:19:21 +0100
From:      Eric DAHAN <ericdahan@meiway.com>
To:        Patrick Proniewski <patpro@patpro.net>, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: RealTek support, moving from linux to freebsd (yes, I've read hardware notes)
Message-ID:  <6.0.0.22.2.20040416101712.02d6fd20@mail.meiway.com>
In-Reply-To: <C0D64726-8F7D-11D8-95BD-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>
References:  <63623.66.11.183.182.1082040025.squirrel@69.193.41.47> <C0D64726-8F7D-11D8-95BD-0030654D97EC@patpro.net>

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At 10:12 16/04/2004 +0200, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
>Hello,

Hi,

>I'm planning to move a linux server to FreeBSD 5.2.x. This server use a
>Realtek NIC, here is the relevant part of dmesg under linux :
>
>8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:05.0
>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8800000, 00:0d:61:17:e2:2d, IRQ 11
>eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
>
>By the past, I've had many problems with realtek cards that were flagged
>as "supported" in FreeBSD hardware notes, so (for realtek only) I no longer
>trust hardware notes.

I use this pci card  under FBSD 4.8R and all work fine :

rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc400-0xc4ff mem=20
0xe9001000-0xe90010ff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci1
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:61:18:0e:a8

Bye.


>Any remark/info about this particular card support would be much=
 appreciated.
>
>thanx in advance,
>
>patpro
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