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Date:      Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:19 +0100
From:      Torfinn Ingolfsen <torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
To:        freebsd-stable@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: interface re0
Message-ID:  <20070321071619.b12293db.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no>
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On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:56:57 -0700 (PDT)
Tom Samplonius <tom@samplonius.org> wrote:

>   I recommend you do a rebose boot (which will print the PCI id of
> the card), and attach it to  a PR.  Perhaps the re maintainer can
> hack the driver for a special exception for your NIC.

'pciconf  -lv' should laso give the OP the necessary PCI id etc.
Then it would smart of him to use that information in a search (web and
mailing lists) with 'FreeBSD' to see if anyone have seen this and
perhaps fixed it already.

>   But em cards (Intel Pro1000GT Desktop) cards are very cheap, and do
> work.  Why buy RealTek?  RealTek has been outputting overly
> simplistic hardware since the beginning.  If there was a corner that
> could be cut when building a NIC, a RealTek engineer thought of it
> first.

Well, in my case, because RealTek in most cases are cheaper than
anything else, and because of availability. Availability varies across
the world you know.
FWIW, I use several RealTek chips and cards (none
Gigabit), have done so for years, and they work for me.
YMMV.
-- 
Regards,
Torfinn Ingolfsen,
Norway




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