RealTek support, moving from linux to freebsd (yes, I've readhardware notes)

[Patrick Proniewski]

Hi,

On 16 avr. 2004, at 10:28, Gunnarsson, Mikael wrote:

>
>> By the past, I've had many problems with realtek cards that were 
>> flagged
>> as "supported" in FreeBSD hardware notes, so (for realtek only) I no 
>> longer
>> trust hardware notes.
>
> They are supported, but the realtek chips, especially the 8129 and 
> 8139, are notoriously crappy. I don't know if the linux drivers manage 
> to work around all the quirks better than the freebsd drivers do, but 
> in either case your best bet is to get a real NIC instead.. Intel 
> Pro/100 cards are cheap and work like a charm for budget servers, and 
> are well supported under all BSDs and linuxes.

yep, I'm a great fan of Intel Pro/100 cards, but this time I'm afraid I 
have no choice, the server is not mine. But if things go wrong because 
of the NIC, I'll ask the owner of the machine to buy an Intel card.

patpro
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