Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:23:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:23:55 -0500 Received: from parcelfarce.linux.theplanet.co.uk ([195.92.249.252]:13572 "EHLO www.linux.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:23:53 -0500 Message-ID: <3DD931BA.9040407@pobox.com> Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 13:30:18 -0500 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.2b) Gecko/20021018 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Eyal Lebedinsky CC: list linux-kernel Subject: Re: RTL8139D support for 2.4? References: <3DD8B521.19184544@eyal.emu.id.au> In-Reply-To: <3DD8B521.19184544@eyal.emu.id.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1084 Lines: 33 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 - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/