From owner-freebsd-stable Tue Nov 6 15:35:48 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from cypherpunks.cryptohill.net (sub-168ip36.carats.net [216.152.168.36]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 482BA37B405 for ; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 15:35:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from vangelderen.org (sub-168ip56.carats.net [216.152.168.56]) by cypherpunks.cryptohill.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id C961B1C8FF; Tue, 6 Nov 2001 19:35:33 -0400 (AST) Message-ID: <3BE873C2.7090804@vangelderen.org> Date: Tue, 06 Nov 2001 19:35:30 -0400 From: "Jeroen C. van Gelderen" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:0.9.4) Gecko/20010913 X-Accept-Language: en-us MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Brandon D. Valentine" Cc: Marcel Prisi , stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: What NIC to choose ? References: <20011106114853.C42904-100000@turtle.looksharp.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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