Date: Thu, 26 Apr 2001 09:58:46 +0200 From: "Munish Chopra" <messiah_man@hotmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 very slow ! Message-ID: <F47scK8t859I09Ek8fI000038e4@hotmail.com>
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The RealTek 8139 is generally regarded to be one of the worst ethernet cards ever made. The design seems like it was pulled straight out of a goat's ass. The guy who wrote the driver (forget his name) put something like this in the source code for the driver: "This card re-defines the meaning of 'low end'...". It IS incredibly cheap though, and supported by almost any platform. It's most likely not a driver issue either. Since it's so cheap, many people have it, so this bug would probably already have been caught. The card is too dumb to auto-configure itself properly for full/half duplex or 10/100 though, so you might want to explicitly set that in /etc/rc.conf...that usually helps. Cheers, Munish _________________________________________________________________________ Get Your Private, Free E-mail from MSN Hotmail at http://www.hotmail.com. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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