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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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