Re: Words fail me
- From: Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 20:32:25 GMT
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 17:18:59 +0000 (UTC), brian@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Brian
Kantor) wrote:
Jasper Janssen <jasper@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
However, there are *so damn many* of them about that the drivers have
exciting, but consistent ways of dealing with the, ah, idiosyncracies, and
they end up beign perfectly reliable, even if they're crap.
Although nearly every one of the RealTek NIC cards I've seen is simply
the reference implementation (yes, including the reference board
layout). I had a handful of them where the only way you could tell
them apart was the colour of the solder mask.
For a realtek, that's a pluspoint. Who needs variations that may break
stuff? I have examples of at least three different PCB formats though,
including one that was specifically bought because it used a PCB only 4 cm
or so high including the connector, so it fit in my socket-370 pizzabox as
extra NIC (after removing the slot bracket and modifying the pizzabox case
to have a hole in the appropriate location, that is).
The main two variations seem to be with an option rom socket or a
smaller/cheaper PCB without one. And they'll sometimes solder in a WOL
connector or not, depending how the mood strikes them.
In the last three or four months, every one of our NGE cards went
bad. That's only a sample of four, but I'm suspecting either chip
die problems or insufficient goatage.
Likely the former.
Not all connected to a cheapo Realtek switch, were they?
Jasper
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