Date: 04 Feb 2000 11:36:18 -0500 From: Arcady Genkin <a.genkin@utoronto.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Why is DFE-530 NIC identified as rl0 instead of vr0? Message-ID: <874sbo6i2l.fsf@tea.thpoon.com> In-Reply-To: Scott Bolte's message of "Fri, 4 Feb 2000 08:31:16 -0500" References: <200002041330.HAA01171@cirque.gso.med.ge.com>
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Scott Bolte <bolte@gsao.gso.med.ge.com> writes: > I recently bought a D-link DFE-530TX+ NIC that is misidentified > under FreeBSD 3.4. In HARDWARE.TXT it is claimed that the > DFE-530 should be a vr0 (VIA VT3043/VT86C100A PCI based cards) > but the on-boot probe identifies it as rl0 (RealTek 8129/8139 > fast ethernet). Unless you are the same person, there was another thread about this a month or two ago. Somebody tried to get the 530TX card working with vr driver, and it refused. Then it was reported to work with rl driver. This even made me call D-Link, because I was thinking of buying a 530TX. I asked if they switched the chip for realtek... of course, the tech. support person didn't know the answer, but somebody did get back to me the next day. He assured that it was still via-rhine chip that they were using. > The card's docs don't say what chip it uses, and the chip > labels do not clearly identified what they are. Can anyone > speculate if the probe routine is broken, or has D-link > switched hardware? If they have switched chips, is there any > substantial difference between them? Well, rtl8139 is known to be the worst. Via-rhine is suposedly a tulip clone, and has a slightly bigger CPU load than tulip, but it's inexpensive, and should perform better than the realtek crap. I'd suggest that you call D-Link and find out what's going on. If you do, could you let me know their response? > P.S. Btw, the card seems pretty CPU hungry at 100baseTX. Would > that be true of an Intel Pro/100+ or a 3Com EtherLink > 10/100 too? I've heard really good things about the Intel cards. -- Arcady Genkin http://www.thpoon.com Nostalgia isn't what it used to be. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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