Re: RTL8139D support for 2.4?

From: Jeff Garzik (jgarzik@pobox.com)
Date: Mon Nov 18 2002 - 13:30:18 EST


Eyal Lebedinsky wrote:

> I recently got a local (Australian, NetComm) NIC that uses a 8139D.
> The standard 8139too seems to work with it but I wonder if I can
> get something more out of a driver that has extra support.

[...]

> Anyone knows the difference between the 8139C and 8139D?

At the driver level, there should not be appreciable differences between
the two chips. 8139C+ is the super-cool tulip-like chip from RealTek
with all the speed and features. 8139D is just a small incremental
revision of the chip. It does add a few features, but none that would
affect performance or stability (positively or negatively).

RealTek's 8139C+, and it's GigE cousin 8169 are really nice. I hope
RealTek finds a lot of customers for these chips, because so far they
are both solid, fast, and feature-full.

Regards,

        Jeff

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