Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

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Greg Mars wrote:
> I'm buying parts for a computer and want to make sure that the core 
> components are as freebsd friendly as possible. So far, I've decided 
> on a core 2 quad q6600 and I'm choosing the motherboard now. However 
> it seems many of the popular motherboards have Realtek ALC888 as 
> built-in audio and Realtek 8111B as built-in LAN.
> I read at:
>
> http://www.freebsd.org/relnotes/CURRENT/hardware/i386/article.html
>
> that the sound should work but I couldn't find any info on the LAN.
> Does anyone on the list have any experience with it?
>
> By the way, I'm going to run FreeBSD 7.
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Aloha,

Realtek 8169 is a 1000 M  and  works on 7.* and 8.* I think 8111 maybe 
old 100M ? Are you sure about the Realtek model  #?

 
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