Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Dillon
had to walk into mine and say:
> I'm adding Bill Paul to the list specifically.
>
> Hmm. Now this is odd! I think I may have found something!
>
> All of my 'rl' driver cards fail this test:
Oh sure. Bet the farm on the absolute worst NIC on the whole damn planet,
why don't you. Why spend a few bucks on some nice 3c905B or 3c905C cards
and beat up on them when you can buy ten RealTek cards for a dollar. About
as reliable as a pair of tin cans and a piece of string, but gosh they
sure are cheap.
You'll have to wait until at least tomorrow before I can look into this,
since I won't be able to do any debugging until I throw my one and only
RealTek 8139 sample adapter into a machine and run some tests with it.
> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> irq 11 at device 3.0 on pci0
> rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:d1:89:05
> miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
pciconf -l would be nice here too (to see the PCI revision code).
> Methinks there is something going on with the 'rl' driver and/or
> the RealTek cards!
Gee, y'think? I don't suppose you ran any similar tests with, say,
one of those LinkSys cards you had the other day. Or maybe a 3Com card.
I mean, it's just a little anti-climactic, you know? I put all that
blood, sweat and tears into if_xl and if_dc, but do people do stress
tests with them to help me identify weaknesses? No, they pound on
the house of cards that is if_rl.
*sigh*
-Bill
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