[hackers] Re: Realtek

[Dag-ErlingSmørgrav]

David Gilbert <dgilbert at velocet.ca> writes:
> But ... I'm not sure that their performance is largely better than the
> rl's.  The driver writer for the rl maligns the card in comments for
> requiring alignment (and thus copying).  There are far worse hacks in
> the dc code ... with the comment that some dc implementations are
> worse than others.

Not to mention the fact that over the past year or so people have been
repeatedly picking the dc driver apart and putting it back together
with some bits missing, so for some cards it has gone from working
perfectly, to getting the MAC address wrong but working fine after you
manually set it, to plainly refusing to attach to the card.  My laptop
is now practically reduced to a doorstop since -STABLE doesn't have
Cardbus support and -CURRENT refuses to attach to the NIC.

DES
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