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Date: Mon, 18 Nov 2002 20:32:48 +0100
To: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>
Cc: Eyal Lebedinsky <eyal@eyal.emu.id.au>,
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Subject: Re: RTL8139D support for 2.4?
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On Mon, Nov 18, 2002 at 01:30:18PM -0500, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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.
> 

Do we have to assume that Eyal Lebedinsky should use 8139cp driver
instead of 8139too ?

Cheers,

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