Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2002 00:45:22 -0500 (EST) From: jack <jack@germanium.xtalwind.net> To: Andrew Boothman <andrew@cream.org> Cc: hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: nForce Motherboard Chipset Message-ID: <20020104003618.J43190-100000@germanium.xtalwind.net> In-Reply-To: <3C353C80.2080507@cream.org>
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Today Andrew Boothman wrote: > Replying to my own message, on > http://www.asus.com.tw/mb/socketa/a7n266-e/overview.htm Asus claim that > the ethernet controller is a Realtek RTL 8139, which would appear to be > convered by the rl driver. Any comments would still be appriciated though. Bill Paul's comments in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c paint a less than glowing picture of that chipset. /* * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Jack O'Neill Systems Administrator / Systems Analyst jack@germanium.xtalwind.net Crystal Wind Communications, Inc. Finger jack@germanium.xtalwind.net for my PGP key. PGP Key fingerprint = F6 C4 E6 D4 2F 15 A7 67 FD 09 E9 3C 5F CC EB CD enriched, vcard, HTML messages > /dev/null -------------------------------------------------------------------------- A Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer is to computing what a McDonalds Certified Food Specialist is to fine cuisine. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message
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