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From: Doug White <dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu>
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Subject: Re: Realtek 8129 Fast Ethernet Card Support?
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On Fri, 8 Aug 1997, Jason Liao wrote:

> Realtek 8029 is detected as ed2 in 2.2.1.  It works fine.  However, this
> one 
> is 8129, a Fast Ethernet chip.

Oh.  I doubt it's supported then.

> > BTW, you can get DEC 21041-based cards for the same price, and they are
> > much better supported.
> Recently I got a 21142-based Fast Ethernet card.  Using the latest
> if_de.c, it worked
> with 2.2.1 but the speed auto-sensing didn't work properly.

You need to update your de driver to support the newer chips.

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