Date: Mon, 09 Apr 2001 20:09:33 -0500 From: David Kelly <dkelly@hiwaay.net> To: Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> Cc: Gunther Schadow <gunther@aurora.regenstrief.org>, freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Who's got the cheapest 100-BT Ethernet NIC? Message-ID: <200104100109.f3A19XP30889@grumpy.dyndns.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Larry Librettez <lipshitz909@yahoo.com> of "Mon, 09 Apr 2001 13:36:57 PDT." <20010409203657.69702.qmail@web13204.mail.yahoo.com>
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Larry Librettez writes: > I have several D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100 PCI NIC's > living on my network. They have never let me down the > 2 years I've used them. Can be had for $19.99 at > CompUSA, Best Buy, Circuit City, etc. I've seen them > for as low as $14.99 on sale. > > It uses the Realtek 8139 chip and in LINT the device > driver is 'rl'. Have you ever read /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c? [...] /* * The RealTek 8139 PCI NIC redefines the meaning of 'low end.' This is * probably the worst PCI ethernet controller ever made, with the possible * exception of the FEAST chip made by SMC. The 8139 supports bus-master * DMA, but it has a terrible interface that nullifies any performance * gains that bus-master DMA usually offers. * [...] Couple of months ago found a vendor with a box of pulled Intel 10/100's and talked them down to 3 for $24. All 3 worked, as did the other 6 purchased by those looking over my shoulder. At one time knew of a vendor selling tested pulls for $25 on the net. -- David Kelly N4HHE, dkelly@hiwaay.net ===================================================================== The human mind ordinarily operates at only ten percent of its capacity -- the rest is overhead for the operating system. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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