[realtek] RTL8139 w/ 2.4.5

[Ben Greear]

"Aaron D. Marasco" wrote:
> 
> Hi all,
> 
>    I was wondering if it is possible at all to get RTL8139 (Becker) into
> 2.4.5? I used to have big problems (about a year ago, kernel 2.2.x) with
> large file transfers (big problems = total lockup) and then a new rtl8139
> came out that fixed it. With the 2.4.x kernel, I'm stuck with this 8139too
> which seems to be junk according to everything I read. AND now I have the
> lockups occurring again, so I am guessing the 8139too code was 'stolen' (my
> words) BEFORE this wonderful fix. Thanks for any help.
> 
>   - Aaron

It seems that Becker has effectively decided not to port his 2.2
drivers forward to 2.4, so other people have done their best to
do the ports and/or write new ones for 2.4

I know that the person doing the RTL and the Tulip driver
for 2.4 is working very hard to keep them up to date and working
smoothly, but it is not a trivial task.

Try the eepro cards from Intel if you want a stable and fast
NIC/driver, it's one of the few that seems to work really well
for me.

Ben

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