Date: Wed, 18 May 2005 09:36:08 +0300 From: Ion-Mihai Tetcu <itetcu@apropo.ro> To: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> Cc: Dana Baguley <dana.baguley@gmail.com> Subject: Re: 3C905B-TX problems on fresh install Message-ID: <20050518093608.2afca5b3@it.buh.tecnik93.com> In-Reply-To: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEHIFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> References: <961ed0460505172234227e246e@mail.gmail.com> <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEHIFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com>
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On Tue, 17 May 2005 22:44:38 -0700 "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> wrote: > > The RealTek 8139 is also an iffy card, but not in the same way > the 3c905 is. With the 3c905 you have a lot of timing/driver > issues to where you get different results depending on what > motherboard your using it in. With the Realtek, they always work > from that standpoint, the problem is that sometimes their autodetection > goes haywire and you have to hard-code them to a specific speed > and duplex in your ifconfig statement. They also don't have an > optimal register setup and so consume more CPU to get data in and out > of the card. You wouldn't use one in a FreeBSD router, but other > than that, they are fine under FreeBSD. I use about 3 or 4 of them > myself. And some of the rl cards (the older ones from my experience) have the nasty habit of blocking themselves after some time. I have a cron job the ifconfigs down and up each 4 hours to resolve that. -- IOnut Unregistered ;) FreeBSD "user"
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