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patpro

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Dec 4, 2003, 6:02:25 AM12/4/03
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Hello,

I'll have to install FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1 on a machine sporting gigabyte
GA-8LD533 motherboard.
This board has an onboard ethernet port using the Realtek 8101L.

will this work on FreeBSD ?
Comments about the motherboard are welcome.

thanks,

patpro

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Simon Barner

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Dec 4, 2003, 8:41:05 AM12/4/03
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Hi,

> This board has an onboard ethernet port using the Realtek 8101L.

According to the hardware notes, it seems that this onboard NIC is
currently not supported.

http://www.freebsd.org/releases/4.9R/hardware-i386.html
http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.1R/hardware-i386.html

Simon

patpro

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Dec 4, 2003, 9:57:53 AM12/4/03
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In article <hhdnqb...@simonbarner.myfqdn.de>,
Simon Barner <bar...@in.tum.de> wrote:

well, I've already been confronted to supported realtek chipsets that
were in fact a pain in the @ss, and almost non-functional.

The good news is that someone on freebsd-hardware mailing list says the
motherboard and it's realtek 8101L onboard NIC are ok on FreeBSD 4.8R
(so they should be ok with 4.9 and 5.1 and if they don't I'll go 4.8)

henry tieman

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Dec 4, 2003, 4:43:30 PM12/4/03
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I have a motherboard with a RealTek 8100B network chip. It is also not
in the list of supported chips but works well enough. It is recognized
as a RealTek 8139 and uses the rl(4) driver. If any driver works with a
8101L I would expect it to be the rl driver.

To use the rl network driver you also have to have the miibus driver in
the kernel. I didn't realize I needed both and left out the miibus
driver once - just once....

Henry

patpro wrote:

>Hello,
>
>I'll have to install FreeBSD 4.9 or 5.1 on a machine sporting gigabyte
>GA-8LD533 motherboard.
>This board has an onboard ethernet port using the Realtek 8101L.
>
>will this work on FreeBSD ?
>Comments about the motherboard are welcome.
>
>thanks,
>
>patpro
>
>
>


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patpro

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Dec 4, 2003, 6:23:27 PM12/4/03
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In article <bqo9k...@enews4.newsguy.com>,
henry tieman <henryt...@aracnet.com> wrote:

> I have a motherboard with a RealTek 8100B network chip. It is also not
> in the list of supported chips but works well enough. It is recognized
> as a RealTek 8139 and uses the rl(4) driver. If any driver works with a
> 8101L I would expect it to be the rl driver.

what do you mean by "well enough", stability of throuput problem ?


> To use the rl network driver you also have to have the miibus driver in
> the kernel. I didn't realize I needed both and left out the miibus
> driver once - just once....

thanks,

henry tieman

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Dec 6, 2003, 11:51:49 PM12/6/03
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I've never seen a real problem with a rl NIC. The rl man page says that
there may be some throughput issues but I haven't noticed any. I used to
have 2 RealTek NICs on my network but I replaced one recently.

I just had a 10/100 switch go bad on my network.... Switch errors
always look like something else is doing bad things on the network. But
I've seen nothing wrong since I replaced the switch.

Henry

patpro wrote:

>In article <bqo9k...@enews4.newsguy.com>,
> henry tieman <henryt...@aracnet.com> wrote:
>
>
>
>>I have a motherboard with a RealTek 8100B network chip. It is also not
>>in the list of supported chips but works well enough. It is recognized
>>as a RealTek 8139 and uses the rl(4) driver. If any driver works with a
>>8101L I would expect it to be the rl driver.
>>
>>
>
>what do you mean by "well enough", stability of throuput problem ?
>
>
>
>

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