On Wed, 01 Jun 2005 06:58:40 +0000, Grant Coady wrote:
> That is not evidence, just an anonymous anecdote,

For your interest, the note in the second URL is from the FreeBSD driver
source. Tell me who whe should rather believe concerning the quality of
Realtek 8139-based cards. You, or the person who wrote the Realtek driver
for FreeBSD?

> RTL-8139 != RTL-8139C or later.

Have you read the driver sources? It does not make a real difference
whether you have a RTL8139, RTL8139B, RTL8139C or RTL8139D. The 8139
realtek chips want longword aligned TX buffers, and there can only be one
fragment buffer per packet. Besides that most drivers (e.g. in Linux and
FreeBSD) disable use of MMIO, because it is to broken to function
correctly on SMP machines.

-- Daniel