From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Mar 14 12:11:47 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from teak.adhesivemedia.com (teak.adhesivemedia.com [207.202.159.79]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6314B37B404 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:11:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (philip@localhost) by teak.adhesivemedia.com (8.11.6/8.11.6) with ESMTP id g2EKBeU32166 for ; Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:11:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from philip@adhesivemedia.com) Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:11:40 -0800 (PST) From: Philip Hallstrom To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Does the RealTek 8100B onboard NIC work with FreeBSD? (yes it does) In-Reply-To: <20020307103708.J47511-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> Message-ID: <20020314121117.K13585-100000@teak.adhesivemedia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I ended up buying the SV25 and just so it's in the archives, the whole machine works fine with FreeBSD 4.5-STABLE. On Thu, 7 Mar 2002, Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Hi all - > I'm looking at buying an SV25 > (http://direct.mwave.com/mwave/doc2/j00052.html) and it uses an onboard > RealTek 8100B NIC. I can't seem to determine if this NIC will work with > FreeBSD. > > From the rl man page: > > "The rl driver provides support for PCI ethernet adapters and embedded > controllers based on the RealTek 8129 and 8139 fast ethernet controller > chips." > > I can't find any mention of the 8100B however. I also can't verify if > it's based on the 8129/8139. > > Here's the product link to the 8100B: > http://www.realtek.com.tw/htm/products/cn/rtl8100b_l.asp > > Can anyone tell me if this NIC will work with FreeBSD? > > Thanks! > > -philip > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message