Hi all, I'm havin' a strange problem with my Realtek Network Adapter. On boot, the detection looks just fine: $ dmesg| grep rl rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xee000000-0xee0000ff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:32:e5:12 However, the performance is very poor. Some examples: * using 'fetch' command, I get a lot of "timeouts", so some "ports" fail to install (I have to retry). * using Konqueror, for instance, I also get some "timeouts" and a very low speed connecting to different websites. I've done the some test on the same machine (and on my laptop) using GNU/Linux, and works pretty fine. So I discarded a network hardware issue as the origin of the problem. Any ideas? Thank you all in advance. -- Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa imobachgs en banot punto net osoh en jabber.org
Hi! I had some problems with "rl" cards with "auto" media. It happens with some kind of hubs. Try to specify type of your network media, for example: # ifconfig rl0 inet 10.0.0.5 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX mediaopt full-duplex # route add default 10.0.0.254 Vlad.> From owner-freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Thu Jan 20 11:31:23 2005 > From: Imobach =?iso-8859-1?q?Gonz=E1lez_Sosa?= <imobachgs@banot.net> > To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org > Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:30:03 +0000 > Subject: Realtek 8139 (rl) very poor performance > > Hi all, > > I'm havin' a strange problem with my Realtek Network Adapter. On boot, the > detection looks just fine: > > $ dmesg| grep rl > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xee000000-0xee0000ff > irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 > miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 > rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 > rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:f4:32:e5:12 > > However, the performance is very poor. Some examples: > > * using 'fetch' command, I get a lot of "timeouts", so some "ports" fail to > install (I have to retry). > * using Konqueror, for instance, I also get some "timeouts" and a very low > speed connecting to different websites. > > I've done the some test on the same machine (and on my laptop) using > GNU/Linux, and works pretty fine. So I discarded a network hardware issue as > the origin of the problem. > > Any ideas? > > Thank you all in advance. > > -- > Imobach González Sosa > imobachgs en banot punto net > osoh en jabber.org > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > >
On Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:30:03 +0000, Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote> Hi all, > > I'm havin' a strange problem with my Realtek Network Adapter. On > boot, the detection looks just fine: > > $ dmesg| grep rl > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xee000000- > 0xee0000ff irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 > rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0: > 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: Ethernet > address: 00:40:f4:32:e5:12 > > However, the performance is very poor. Some examples: > > * using 'fetch' command, I get a lot of "timeouts", so some "ports" > fail to install (I have to retry). * using Konqueror, for instance, > I also get some "timeouts" and a very low speed connecting to > different websites. > > I've done the some test on the same machine (and on my laptop) using > GNU/Linux, and works pretty fine. So I discarded a network hardware > issue as the origin of the problem.If it's on an old machine then you have your problem there. The Realtek chips and its drivers put everything on the CPU, because the chip is not capable of doing too much. Which is why it's so cheap. Modern CPUs don't have too much problems with it, but older ones do. Of course, the Linux driver might be a bit better written then the FreeBSD one. It's advicable to get yourself a better network card if it's indeed an old machine. Cheers, Jorn
-------- Original Message -------- From: - Fri Jan 21 00:30:33 2005 X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 X-Mozilla-Status2: 00800000 Message-ID: <41F04D26.2060306@sdf.lonestar.org> Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 00:30:30 +0000 From: Pietro Cerutti <pietro@sdf.lonestar.org> User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (X11/20041231) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa <imobachgs@banot.net> Subject: Re: Realtek 8139 (rl) very poor performance References: <200501201630.04506.imobachgs@banot.net> In-Reply-To: <200501201630.04506.imobachgs@banot.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote:> Hi all,Hi,> > I'm havin' a strange problem with my Realtek Network Adapter.There are many problems involving that card. I have the same card as yours on my FreeBSD-5.3 Release, and often got Watchgod Timeouts while cvsupping the port three. I sent an email to the author of the driver, but he never answered me. It seems that the problem's in the chipset, you've nothing to do about it... I solved the problem buying a new card. That's a shame, but that's it. Best Regards, -- Pietro Cerutti -- Powered by FreeBSD -- SDF Public Access UNIX System sdf.lonestar.org -- Pietro Cerutti -- Powered by FreeBSD -- SDF Public Access UNIX System sdf.lonestar.org
Imobach Gonz?lez Sosa wrote:> Hi all,Hi,> > I'm havin' a strange problem with my Realtek Network Adapter.There are many problems involving that card. I have the same card as yours on my FreeBSD-5.3 Release, and often got Watchgod Timeouts while cvsupping the port three. I sent an email to the author of the driver, but he never answered me. It seems that the problem's in the chipset, you've nothing to do about it... I solved the problem buying a new card. That's a shame, but that's it. Best Regards, -- Pietro Cerutti -- Powered by FreeBSD -- SDF Public Access UNIX System sdf.lonestar.org