On Thu, 15 Jan 2004 16:07:16 +0100 Dennis Freise <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I have seven realtek 8139 cards in use here and never encountered a | single problem with them. Performance is also okay.
Ok, since someone actually made the "realtek cards don't suck" statement... Check out the comments in the FreeBSD driver for the card, they explain why their performance is so poor compared to other cards: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c?rev=1.56&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&only_with_tag=HEAD Sure, the cards work, but unless you're really really really short on money I'd suggest staying clear of them (you can get NatSemi chipset cards as cheaply anyway... or an e100pro off eBay...). -- Ciaran McCreesh Mail: ciaranm at gentoo.org Web: http://dev.gentoo.org/~ciaranm
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