"Koster, K.J." schrieb:
>
> >
> > > This particular card is branded "TP-Link", chip reads RTL8139B.
> > >
> > > It detects, configures and runs for a while, but drops the
> > > line after a while. (PPTP to my ADSL modem)
> >
> > I got exactly this chip (RTL8139b) on a Realtek card working here 24/7
> > since about two months. I also got problems with dropped
> > lines, but this
> > is because the ISDN "modem" drops the connection when the line quality
> > gets too bad. With a previous ISDN "modem" the darn box went
> > into jabber
> > mode, the only thing helping after that was power cycling the "modem",
> > then ifconfig rl0 down; ifconfig rl0 up again. After changing the
> > "modem" to a small CISCO 1000, the line is stable.
> >
> I had the line drop away from under me when I used this card in two PC's
> with a crosscable. I did an NFS-based FreeBSD install, but I had to replace
> the card before I was able to install the whole thing.
>
> What version of FreeBSD are you using?
$ uname -a
FreeBSD amnesix.XXXXXX.XX 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #2: Tue Jan 16
09:33:35
CET 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/src/sys/compile/AMNESIX-4.2-S
i386
and
$ uname -a
FreeBSD miraculix.i-clue.de 4.2-STABLE FreeBSD 4.2-STABLE #0: Fri Jan 5
18:27:5
0 CET 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386
(That's a RTL8139C in there)
HTH
-Christoph Sold
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