> "Kirill" == Kirill Ponomarew <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Kirill> Hi, On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 11:46:43AM -0300, Pablo Morales
Kirill> wrote:
>> Someone said that the realtek 8029 and 8139 ethernet cards are the
>> worst cards ever made. My boss is planning to make a great buy of
>> this card
Hi Kirill!
That's a real myth about Realtek :0)
We're using them on all our FreeBSD machines for over 5 years without
any problems. Driver is working fine.
Speed and reliability is OK. So I for one can even offer to choose them
instead of 3COM as in Russia you can easily get 2 from the 3 3COM c
On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:03, David Gilbert wrote:
>
> Given the price of this card
> ... and the fact that less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that
> this is only an issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards
> might fit for you.
Given the price of the card, you can almost
> "Wes" == Wes Peters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
Wes> On Wednesday 26 March 2003 16:03, David Gilbert wrote:
>> Given the price of this card ... and the fact that
>> less-than-400Mhz CPU's are rather rare, and that this is only an
>> issue for high bandwidth applications ... the rl cards mig
David Gilbert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> But ... I'm not sure that their performance is largely better than the
> rl's. The driver writer for the rl maligns the card in comments for
> requiring alignment (and thus copying). There are far worse hacks in
> the dc code ... with the comment that s
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: Not to mention the fact that over the past year or so people have been
: repeatedly picking the dc driver apart and putting it back together
: with some bits missing, so for some cards it has gone from wor
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> : Not to mention the fact that over the past year or so people have been
> : repeatedly picking the dc driver apart and putting it back together
> : with so
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: address wrong to not finding it at all (I believe it reports "No
: station address in CIS!") and refusing to attach.
It always didn't find it, you just got lucky before. The no station
address in CIS mea
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: > : address wrong to not finding it at all (I believe it r
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> An address that works. Without further knowledge of your laptop, it
> is impossible for me to say. You will have to find this out by trial
> and error. Some folks like 0xf800, others like 0x4 and
> one uses 0xd4000, but the last one I do
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
: "M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
: > An address that works. Without further knowledge of your laptop, it
: > is impossible for me to say. You will have to find this out by trial
: > and error
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Maybe I should add a stinkpad to my wish list :-)
I'll trade you mine for a reasonably recent Dell or FujitsuSiemens
laptop :)
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On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
> 0xf800 seems to work on my StinkPad (still can't get the serial
> port to work though). It still complains about an "invalid BAR
> number: 27(06)". Plenty of ACPI errors too, but I don't really expect
> much from an IBM laptop.
T
"Matthew N. Dodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Thankfully, APM works great on the older Thinkpads.
for some definition of "great" which includes the APM BIOS suddenly
deciding to suspend the laptop after 30 seconds even when the mains
cord is plugged in.
>
On Mon, 31 Mar 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
> for some definition of "great" which includes the APM BIOS suddenly
> deciding to suspend the laptop after 30 seconds even when the mains
> cord is plugged in.
You've got a 600 series right?
What model and bios revision? (Find out wi
"Matthew N. Dodd" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> What model and bios revision? (Find out with the 'vpd' driver or go
> into the BIOS setup.)
Yep, a 600E (2645BG). I don't know exactly what BIOS version I have,
but I kept it fairly up to date until a fellow committer who shall
remain nameless ran
On Tue, 1 Apr 2003, Dag-Erling [iso-8859-1] Smørgrav wrote:
> Regarding vpd, some documentation (at least in NOTES) would be nice.
> I shouldn't have to RTFS to understand what you're talking about.
Build /sys/modules/bios/vpd, install/load it, read the kernel output. It
also provides all the inf
"M. Warner Losh" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> In message: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Dag-Erling Smørgrav) writes:
> : address wrong to not finding it at all (I believe it reports "No
> : station address in CIS!") and refusing to attach.
> It always didn't find it, you jus
> > An address that works. Without further knowledge of your laptop, it
> > is impossible for me to say. You will have to find this out by trial
> > and error. Some folks like 0xf800, others like 0x4 and
> > one uses 0xd4000, but the last one I don't recommend.
>
> 0xf800 seems
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