Re: RealTek driver woes

1999-03-30 Thread Bill Paul
Of all the gin joints in all the towns in all the world, Matthew Thyer had to walk into mine and say: > There are certain RealTek chipsets that perform very badly in both Windows > and FreeBSD in my experience. This is due to poor hardware design as far > as the FreeBSD driver author could see.

Re: RealTek driver woes

1999-03-30 Thread Matthew Thyer
There are certain RealTek chipsets that perform very badly in both Windows and FreeBSD in my experience. This is due to poor hardware design as far as the FreeBSD driver author could see. Replace your network card with a $30 PCI 10/100 card that is not a RealTek such as the VIA Technologies VT304

RealTek driver woes

1999-03-25 Thread Stephen Hocking-Senior Programmer PGS Tensor Perth
I'm running a RealTek ethernet card in a 486dx4-100 machine and am having some problems. Firstly, doing an ls on a nfs mounted directory exported from the RealTek machine hangs. According to tcpdump it is receiving the readdir packets. Secondly, it will hange solidly when acting as the receiver