Re: 4port Realtek nic
More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is a five port switch: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=18 In the end my couriousity won and I acquired one of these. Works out of the box, appears as a single NIC to OpenBSD: rl0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0 Realtek 8139 rev 0x10: irq 10 address 00:e0:4c:09:1f:50 rlphy0 at rl0 phy 0: RTL internal phy -- ach
Re: 4port Realtek nic
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: Compgeeks is offering a 4port RTL8139D nic for an attractive price. I know the 8139 chipset is supported, not quite so sure of the 8138D. Can anyone speak for these cards? The price is nice and a 4port nic would be very handy. re should almost certainly work with it. may not attach because the id is missing, but that's easy to fix. -- And that's why it really hurts.
Re: 4port Realtek nic
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 02:08:32 -0400 (EDT) Ted Unangst [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Steven Bowers wrote: Compgeeks is offering a 4port RTL8139D nic for an attractive price. I know the 8139 chipset is supported, not quite so sure of the 8138D. Can anyone speak for these cards? The price is nice and a 4port nic would be very handy. re should almost certainly work with it. may not attach because the id is missing, but that's easy to fix. It worksI used this nic several times...re is right -- Andre Ruppert Technische Leitung [EMAIL PROTECTED] PGP public key ID 4D987794 ___ www.vision-net.de | www.ECMSvario.de | www.evoip.de ___ Vision Consulting Deutschland oHG Osterather Str. 7, D-50739 Kvln (Cologne) Fon: +49-221-9171533 Fax: +49-221-9171538 http://www.vision-net.de, [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Geschdftsf|hrende Gesellschafter: Dipl.-Inf. Stephan Krafft, Laura Krafft ___ Register: HRA 15151 - Amtsgericht Kvln Ust-IDNr: DE176186883 IBAN: DE14370502990191002182 Swift-Code: COKSDE33 ___ Disclaimer: http://disclaimer.vision-net.de ___
Re: 4port Realtek nic
On 6/16/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple similarly marketed, similarly described cards (although, with a cheap dc(4) chip), and while they are VERY useful, they are not four-port NICs. What it actually is is a single port NIC with a four port switch. I'm fairly sure this is the exact same thing. Evidence: the picture seems to show two moderately small chips, most quad-port NICs have five chips -- four NICs and a PCI-PCI bridge. COULD it be a PCI-PCI bridge and a quad-port NIC chip? Perhaps, but I'm not aware of anyone putting four NICs on one chip. More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is a five port switch: http://www.realtek.com.tw/products/products1-2.aspx?modelid=18 -- ach
Re: 4port Realtek nic
On Thu, 16 Jun 2005 12:36:06 +0100 Andy Hayward [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 6/16/05, Nick Holland [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a couple similarly marketed, similarly described cards (although, with a cheap dc(4) chip), and while they are VERY useful, they are not four-port NICs. What it actually is is a single port NIC with a four port switch. I'm fairly sure this is the exact same thing. Evidence: the picture seems to show two moderately small chips, most quad-port NICs have five chips -- four NICs and a PCI-PCI bridge. COULD it be a PCI-PCI bridge and a quad-port NIC chip? Perhaps, but I'm not aware of anyone putting four NICs on one chip. More evidence - the description claims it uses the RTL8139D and RTL8305SB chipsets. The RTL8139D chipset is obviously the NIC, the RTL8305B chipset is a five port switch: right again - 1 nic and a build-in switch. ...would be too cheap for a real quad-nic :-) -- Andre Ruppert
4port Realtek nic
Compgeeks is offering a 4port RTL8139D nic for an attractive price. I know the 8139 chipset is supported, not quite so sure of the 8138D. Can anyone speak for these cards? The price is nice and a 4port nic would be very handy.
