Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 14:37:03 +0800 From: Richard Goh <accel@pacific.net.sg> To: "Timothy M. Hughes" <tim@usgcc.odu.edu>, freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RealTek RTL 8129 PCI Fast Ethernet Card Message-ID: <v04003a03b1ba42f5a191@[210.24.242.127]>
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HI, Has anyone got the driver to work yet? Just bought an Advantech panel pc thinking that "NE2000 compatible" was all i needed. Needless to say, countless rebuilds later ..... Thanks for any tips. Rgds Richard On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Eivind Eklund wrote: > On Tue, Mar 17, 1998 at 08:04:15AM -0500, Timothy M. Hughes wrote: > > Has anyone got one of these things to work yet?? I mailed > > questions@freebsd.org and got a response that it was "probably" a > > proprietary driver. If you have a driver or have gotten it to work, > > please email me directly (I dont subscibe). > > RealTek is fairly good at supporting free OSes (even sometimes writing > drivers themselves). > > I don't think you should have a problem getting info from them, but it > is probably correct that it is a properitary chip (probably with an > almost complete clone of the interface of a popular chipset, so making > drivers work should be easy). Unlike the 8019/8029 (which are NE2000 clones), the 8129/8139 appear to be their own design and not compatible with anything else. However, datasheets that look complete enough to write a driver are available on their website (www.realtek.com.tw), and there also exists a Linux driver to crib from (see http://cesdis.gsfc.nasa.gov/linux/misc/100mbs.html ) [Sorry if you see two copies of this - I think I killed the one with an incorrect URL, but it may have escaped] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message www@freebsd.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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