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I'm going to be installing arch in about a week. My realtek ethernet card has had mixed success from all the distros I've used. Slack and Mandrake recognised it fine, but one other (can't remember which) didn't. I know you have to do more manually with arch, so will I have to manually do it either way? I don't mind if I have to, I'd just like to know. Thanks.
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You may need to set your module manually if it's 8139-based, in which case hotplug could get confused trying to figure out whether it should use r8139 or 8139too. Of course, if you don't install hotplug and include it in your rc.conf, you're going to need to set it up manually anyway, which you should do anyway, so that your module gets loaded before the network stuff starts.
EDIT: Mysterious typo...
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Thanks for the help. I'm going to read the tldp doc on kernal crud here in a bit. That should help even more.
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i always try and get an 8139 realtek if I can the only other ethernet card i hva eused without issue is a d-tek that uses the via-rhine module.
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i have much success in using the realtek cards with 8139too module.
my gateway/router has been up around 3 months without missing a beat.
snipped out of archstats:
8139too: |##########------------------------------| (25.1%) [108/431]
more than the 3c59x suprisingly which is probably the best card
3c59x: |####------------------------------------| (11.4%) [49/431]
welcome and good luck
slyski
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snipped out of archstats:
8139too: |##########------------------------------| (25.1%) [108/431]
more than the 3c59x suprisingly which is probably the best card
3c59x: |####------------------------------------| (11.4%) [49/431]
I think that's because 8139 based card are the least expensive you can find.
3com card are realy good one, but I would suggest to use them in a netwrok enviroment were perfomance are realy important so is worth to spend more money.
Most of the people that use arch use it at home so they do not need killing perfomance from the net card, most use the card just to connect via an adsl net modem so the lucky people need just 1 Mb.
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I'm finding more and more used 3c59x cards on the web and at my local used computer store for realy cheap. Somewhere around 10-20 US$.
Probably cause more people are going mobile.
cheers,
slyski
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