From owner-freebsd-hardware Fri Aug 8 17:00:42 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id RAA23805 for hardware-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:00:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.xinetron.com (www.xinetron.com [206.86.215.68]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA23785; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:00:37 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pop.xinetron.com (pop.xinetron.com [206.86.215.82]) by www.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA04900; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 17:00:06 -0700 (PDT) Received: from jason.xinetron.com (jason.xinetron.com [206.86.215.94]) by pop.xinetron.com (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id QAA28889; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 16:59:36 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <33EBB2DA.4FD5@xinetron.com> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 16:59:22 -0700 From: Jason Liao Reply-To: jasonl@xinetron.com Organization: Xinetron, Inc. X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01Gold (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 Followup-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG,freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG To: Doug White CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8129 Fast Ethernet Card Support? References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk /* 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 ---------------------