On Thu, 28 Jan 1999, Rod Taylor wrote:

> I have 2 cheap 100mbit nics (rj45 only).  Both use the ReaTek 8139 chipset 
> (from the best that I can tell).  Both are PCI.

...snip

> Tried to get help in #freebsd in efnet, but no-one had suggestions that 
> helped me... (Thanks anyhow Xanne)

compile a kernel with:

device      rl0

that should work, and if you want to know why the cards are so cheap:

/usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c

wpaul explains it quite well. :)

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