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

[Eric DAHAN]

At 10:12 16/04/2004 +0200, Patrick Proniewski wrote:
>Hello,

Hi,

>I'm planning to move a linux server to FreeBSD 5.2.x. This server use a
>Realtek NIC, here is the relevant part of dmesg under linux :
>
>8139too Fast Ethernet driver 0.9.26
>PCI: Found IRQ 11 for device 01:05.0
>eth0: RealTek RTL8139 at 0xf8800000, 00:0d:61:17:e2:2d, IRQ 11
>eth0:  Identified 8139 chip type 'RTL-8101'
>
>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.

I use this pci card  under FBSD 4.8R and all work fine :

rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc400-0xc4ff mem 
0xe9001000-0xe90010ff irq 11 at device 5.0 on pci1
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:61:18:0e:a8

Bye.


>Any remark/info about this particular card support would be much appreciated.
>
>thanx in advance,
>
>patpro
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