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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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