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DaaT
Very good (and in BeOS damn fast) ethernet chipset. No problems whatsoever in BeOS. rating: 10 |
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drwho-
the RTL8139 works very good in BeOS 5.03.
rating: 10 |
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Snax
I love this chipset. Works wounders in BeOS, setup without a hitch! rating: 10 |
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cyberfloatie
Having a royal pain getting this to work under BeOS R5.0.3. Tried the driver off of BeBits and the native one. The card initializes and will send and recieve on my local network (Win98 Laptop) but will not go out my cable modem. I can ping localhost and the laptop but not the gateway or DNS servers. I even tried this card in a different mobo and got the same results. Tried the trick of changing its slots too and still same thing. Can't figure this one out. rating: 6 |
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Lockle
This card has never given me any problems in BeOS. The only minor point that I have is that for some reason, the link activity light doesn't work in BeOS. Something seems to turn it off. If I boot into another OS, it works just fine.
A great card, and very inexpensive chipset. rating: 9 |
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biffuz
I noticed the Be's drivers doesn't work if the card uses the IRQ 7. To make it work, I had to set the IRQ to 5 trough the BIOS. I don't know if this is due to my card, my mother board or whatsoever, but I think it's common to all cards based on this chipset.
The driver is included in the 5.0.1 patch, not in the original BeOS 5 distribution. rating: 8 |
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pobe
I've got a PC-Card NIC with a Realtek 8139 chip, and it just wont work. In Linux I used the standard 8139 drivers (for pci cards), those worked fine. In BeOS, however, nothing. cardctl ident shows the card and I've tried to bind it in config/.../pcmcia, but nothing works. :-(
If YOU know how to help, please send e-mail to pobe@bithinken.nu! rating: 1 |
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FreonTrip
The driver support is good, but unless your networking needs are on the minimal side this is one ugly chipset. See http://www.fefe.de/linuxeth/realtek.txt for more details; the body of the message is actually taken from the chipset's FreeBSD driver source code. I own one of these, and after my experiences with it feel that I'm being fair. It works, sure, but if you're using 100 mbps mode and are downloading a large file that saturates your bandwidth, open Probe and see just how much time the card is eating... rating: 5 |
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dion_b
A chip with astronomical CPU usage, but fast enough if you can spare the overhead. I try to avoid using these, but I couldn't get any of my other NICs to work, so Realtek it is... rating: 8 |
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cyan
Seems to work fine in R5 with net_server -- very stable (no net_server crashes) and quite fast (although since net_server is slow, that isn't saying much! Expect a 3x performance increase over a 10baseT card, but no more. I doubt any other 100baseT card would do much better under net_server). Also, this is the 8139-C version. I've no idea if -A and -B would work. rating: 9 |
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