I usually don't recommend the 8139/29 for anything that is expected to work
consistently. The cards work alright, but I prefer to stick to Digital or Intel
based NICs for important tasks.
Warner Losh had the audacity to say:
>
> We've had horrible luck with the realtek 8139 with a few of our 10MBps
> hubs. We've had OK luck with cross over cables, but not good enough
> to run with that configuration in our deployed systems.
>
> We've also found that this is due to autonegotiation is the cause of
> this and that if we explicitly choose 10BaseT it works well enough to
> deploy in our systems.
>
> Warner
>
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