Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:35:30 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" <jeroen@vangelderen.org> To: "Brandon D. Valentine" <bandix@looksharp.net> Cc: Marcel Prisi <marcel-lists@virtua.ch>, stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? Message-ID: <3BE873C2.7090804@vangelderen.org> References: <20011106114853.C42904-100000@turtle.looksharp.net>
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Hi Brandon, Brandon D. Valentine wrote: > Indeed that would be unfair. Here is one particular model that I have > found to suck. =) > > Ethernet controller: LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 32). According to http://www.scyld.com/pipermail/tulip/2000-June/002217.html the "LiteOn LNE100TX (rev 32)" uses the LiteOn PNIC chipset and thus is different from the Linksys LNE100TX revision 4.1 card which uses ADMtek chips. Similarly the FreeBSD if_dc.c lists the following chipsets: * Macronix 98713/98715/98725/98727/98732 PMAC (www.macronix.com) * Macronix/Lite-On 82c115 PNIC II (www.macronix.com) * Lite-On 82c168/82c169 PNIC (www.litecom.com) * ASIX Electronics AX88140A (www.asix.com.tw) * ASIX Electronics AX88141 (www.asix.com.tw) * ADMtek AL981 (www.admtek.com.tw) * ADMtek AN985 (www.admtek.com.tw) * Davicom DM9100, DM9102, DM9102A (www.davicom8.com) * Accton EN1217 (www.accton.com) The LNE100TX revision 4.1 cards use an ADMtek chipset whereas yours is reported as LiteOn which seems to indicate the crappy PNICs. > I have both Kingston and Linksys branded examples of this crappy > non-standard tulip clone here. They all report pretty much the above > line in /proc/pci under linux. This leads me to believe that we might still be talking about different cards. Are you perhaps right and is /proc/pci wrong in reporting the ADMtek as a LiteOn? Could you check the exact revision # on your cards? -J -- Jeroen C. van Gelderen -- jeroen@vangelderen.org An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind. -- Gandhi To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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