3C905B-TX problems on fresh install
Ion-Mihai Tetcu
itetcu at apropo.ro
Tue May 17 23:36:31 PDT 2005
On Tue, 17 May 2005 22:44:38 -0700
"Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm at toybox.placo.com> wrote:
>
> The RealTek 8139 is also an iffy card, but not in the same way
> the 3c905 is. With the 3c905 you have a lot of timing/driver
> issues to where you get different results depending on what
> motherboard your using it in. With the Realtek, they always work
> from that standpoint, the problem is that sometimes their autodetection
> goes haywire and you have to hard-code them to a specific speed
> and duplex in your ifconfig statement. They also don't have an
> optimal register setup and so consume more CPU to get data in and out
> of the card. You wouldn't use one in a FreeBSD router, but other
> than that, they are fine under FreeBSD. I use about 3 or 4 of them
> myself.
And some of the rl cards (the older ones from my experience) have the
nasty habit of blocking themselves after some time. I have a cron job
the ifconfigs down and up each 4 hours to resolve that.
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IOnut
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