Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:59:22 -0700 From: Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> To: Doug White <dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8129 Fast Ethernet Card Support? Message-ID: <33EBB2DA.4FD5@xinetron.com> References: <Pine.BSF.3.96.970807121142.252i-100000@localhost>
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/* mailed and posted */ Doug White wrote: > > > > > There is a Fast Ethernet Card based on Realtek 8129 Chip available on > > the market. It's inexpensive, about $30 to $40 per unit. Is there any > > hints about how to make it work with FreeBSD? > > It's detected properly in 2.2.2 (2.2.1 maybe?) and later. Configure ed1 > and you should be OK. Realtek 8029 is detected as ed2 in 2.2.1. It works fine. However, this one is 8129, a Fast Ethernet chip. > > BTW, you can get DEC 21041-based cards for the same price, and they are > much better supported. Recently I got a 21142-based Fast Ethernet card. Using the latest if_de.c, it worked with 2.2.1 but the speed auto-sensing didn't work properly. Thanks for answering my question. > > Doug White | University of Oregon > Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant > http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major > Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo -- --------------------- Jason Liao <jasonl@xinetron.com> ---------------------
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