Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-02 Thread Arjan Knepper
Warner Losh wrote: > In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arjan Knepper writes: > : I'm using a PCMCIA CARDBUS version of the card in -CURRENT > : whitout any problems > > What's the make/model of this card? I knew one existed, but not the > make/model of it. > > Warner Its a Dynalink L100CLV 10/100M

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-02 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Arjan Knepper writes: : I'm using a PCMCIA CARDBUS version of the card in -CURRENT : whitout any problems What's the make/model of this card? I knew one existed, but not the make/model of it. Warner To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscrib

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-02 Thread Rik van Riel
On Thu, 1 Feb 2001, Warner Losh wrote: > We've had horrible luck with the realtek 8139 with a few of our > 10MBps hubs. I've seen the same problem here. My 8139 card is currently going to the switch at 100Mbit/s, which runs stable with Linux 2.4.0, even on my BP6 ;) However, because of a lack o

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-02 Thread Arjan Knepper
I'm using a PCMCIA CARDBUS version of the card in -CURRENT whitout any problems sofar. I don't have experience with the PCI or ISA versions of Realtec. I prefer the Intel E100B and the 3COM 3C905B PCI boards. "Koster, K.J." wrote: > Dear All, > > > > > I usually don't recommend the 8139/29 for a

RE: Realtek card support

2001-02-02 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, > > 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. > While it's obviously well established that these cards should be used as doorstops (

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-01 Thread Warner Losh
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Coleman Kane writes: : 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. Same here. However, with the SBCs we buy, we have

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-01 Thread Coleman Kane
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 10M

Re: Realtek card support

2001-02-01 Thread Warner Losh
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

Re: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread David Greenman
>PS. for the record: I also still have an SMC EtherEZ 10Mb UTP and a 3Com >3c503 for those who want to work on drivers for them. Both of those should work with the ed driver. -DG David Greenman Co-founder, The FreeBSD Project - http://www.freebsd.org President, TeraSolutions, Inc. - http://w

Re: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Jose M. Alcaide
Luigi Rizzo wrote: > > what card is that and what is broken ? > both the ne and the rl driver works reasonably well with the 8029 > and 8139 chips. Media autodetection does not work here -I tried several different 10Mbps hubs- with 8139 based cards. I have to specify "media 10baseT/UTP" to ifcon

Re: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Christoph Sold
"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

RE: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > 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 go

Re: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Christoph Sold
"Koster, K.J." schrieb: > > > > > > > > > I have two RealTek network cards that I'm willing to send > > > to someone who is > > > going to update the FreeBSD realtek driver to support them. > > > > > > > what card is that and what is broken ? > > both the ne and the rl driver works reasonably w

RE: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Koster, K.J.
> > > > > I have two RealTek network cards that I'm willing to send > > to someone who is > > going to update the FreeBSD realtek driver to support them. > > > > what card is that and what is broken ? > both the ne and the rl driver works reasonably well with the 8029 > and 8139 chips. > Thi

Re: Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Luigi Rizzo
what card is that and what is broken ? both the ne and the rl driver works reasonably well with the 8029 and 8139 chips. luigi > > I have two RealTek network cards that I'm willing to send to someone who is > going to update the FreeBSD realtek driver to support them. > > I know it's s

Realtek card support

2001-01-31 Thread Koster, K.J.
Dear All, I have two RealTek network cards that I'm willing to send to someone who is going to update the FreeBSD realtek driver to support them. I know it's supposed to be broken in the hardware, but the sad fact is that in the Netherlands this is the *only* card they sell in many smaller store