From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jun 30 11:29:38 2003 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix, from userid 618) id 083A437B401; Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:29:38 -0700 (PDT) To: hackers@freebsd.org, hardware@freebsd.org Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 11:29:37 -0700 (PDT) X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL54 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <20030630182938.083A437B401@hub.freebsd.org> From: wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG (Bill Paul) Subject: Looking for RealTek 8169-based NIC for testing X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 30 Jun 2003 18:29:38 -0000 I've decided to pick up one of the projects I let lapse some time ago, which was to add support for the RealTek 8139C+ chipset to the rl(4) driver. The 8139C+ is, by default, backwards compatible with the 8139A/B/C/D/etc... but also supports a descriptor-based DMA mechanism, TCP/IP checksum offload, VLAN tagging and extraction, and TCP large send. RealTek also has an 8169 gigabit ethernet chipset with almost the same programming mechanism as the 8139C+, so I decided to support that too. However, while I have a sample 8139C+ NIC for testing, I don't have an 8169 gigE card. I can probably pick one up, but I don't know who sells cards with this chip on it. If anyone can positively identify a card that has uses this chip, i.e. from D-Link, Netgear, or whoever, I'd appreciate it if you could point it me at it. If it's something that can quickly be acquired from CompUSA, even better. Note: RealTek also has an 8110 LOM (Lan On Motherboard) chip, which I _think_ is register compatible with the 8169, however I don't want to buy a whole new motherboard. Ultimately, I may need to find someone who does have one of these so they can verify that the driver does in fact work with it though, so if you've got one, save this e-mail and watch for a call for testers. -Bill -- ============================================================================= -Bill Paul (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu wpaul@windriver.com | Wind River Systems ============================================================================= "If stupidity were a handicap, you'd have the best parking spot." =============================================================================