From owner-freebsd-hardware Tue Mar 17 05:03:58 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA07916 for freebsd-hardware-outgoing; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 05:03:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns1.yes.no (ns1.yes.no [195.119.24.10]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA07896; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 05:03:50 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from eivind@bitbox.follo.net) Received: from bitbox.follo.net (bitbox.follo.net [194.198.43.36]) by ns1.yes.no (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA02316; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 13:03:32 GMT Received: (from eivind@localhost) by bitbox.follo.net (8.8.6/8.8.6) id OAA07995; Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:03:26 +0100 (MET) Message-ID: <19980317140326.46869@follo.net> Date: Tue, 17 Mar 1998 14:03:26 +0100 From: Eivind Eklund To: "Timothy M. Hughes" , freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.89.1i In-Reply-To: ; from Timothy M. Hughes on Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:04:15AM -0500 Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:04:15AM -0500, Timothy M. Hughes wrote: > Has anyone got one of these things to work yet?? I mailed > questions@freebsd.org and got a response that it was "probably" a > proprietary driver. If you have a driver or have gotten it to work, > please email me directly (I dont subscibe). RealTek is fairly good at supporting free OSes (even sometimes writing drivers themselves). I don't think you should have a problem getting info from them, but it is probably correct that it is a properitary chip (probably with an almost complete clone of the interface of a popular chipset, so making drivers work should be easy). Eivind. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message