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Date:      Thu, 26 Apr 2001 17:12:27 +0100
From:      Guilherme Oliveira <guilherme@nortenet.pt>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 8139 very slow !
Message-ID:  <3AE848EB.70E29C11@nortenet.pt>
References:  <F47scK8t859I09Ek8fI000038e4@hotmail.com>

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Munish Chopra wrote:
> 
> 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.

But I saw some people in this list with a 8139 too, so I thaught it was
fixed.

Those people: your card is working fast ? I dont' have HUB. How ?

Tnx !
[]'s


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