re: realtek 8139

[Rian Hunter]

On Sat, 2004-02-21 at 15:25, Alfred M. Szmidt wrote:
>    Hey thanks for the patch, but i just edited rtl8139.c myself and
>    changed the pci ids the driver searched for to the one's
>    corresponding to my card. I also looked at the latest rtl8139.c
>    driver for linux and it has a lot of improvements that should be
>    added to GNU Mach (the 1 branch at least) for more card
>    compatibility. I'll try out the patch and see how it works.
> 
> Mmm... I don't see how you can twiddle the PCI ID's for the RTL8139
> driver, because they don't exist; but maybe I missed something.  As
> for my patch, it is the latest RTL8139 driver. :-)

Yeah the patch totally works. Although I think it might be giving me
slower performance than the .99 driver. I can't be completely sure, it
probably isn't, the only slow performance i can notice is from ping
(which was slow with the old driver too)  Thanks again!
-rian