[Gllug] REALTEK 8100 NICS

[Jake Jellinek]

Hi,

I dunno particularly about the 8100 NICS but if it's any help...

We've found that any card based on the Realtek 8139 chipset works very
reliably and well to quite high load on its own, but combine it with
another Realtek 8139 in the same system and packets start getting
dropped etc. This may be to do with module parameters on load or some
such, but I've always found it easier just to use another type of card.
A Realtek 8139 with a card based on another module (the tulip for
instance) seems fine.

Thanks,

Jake.


On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:16, Mike Brodbelt wrote:
> On Wed, 2002-03-13 at 11:01, George Saxby wrote:
> > Hi,
> >    The pointy heads have just bought us a bunch of Elonex "cheepo"
> > boxes with built in realtek 8100 NICs  on the mobo.  IF we were using
> > that other O/S they probably work but we are supposed to use LINUX on
> > this batch  as a trial.
> > 
> >    Anyone ever used such a beast if so any recommended driver?
> 
> No exactly, no, but support for RealTek cards was pretty good last time
> I looked. Ther kernel definitel includes a driver for cards based on the
> realtek 8139 chipset, which is an on board chipset - could that be what
> you have?
> 
> Mike.
> 
> 
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