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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