OT: Realtek; Was Re: Windoze crash (was Re: Well, I was at Fry's in CA...)

From: Fred N. van Kempen <waltje_at_pdp11.nl>
Date: Sun Jul 6 17:49:00 2003

On Sun, 6 Jul 2003, Doc wrote:

> They're Win-NICs. It's not a driver issue, it's the way they're
> designed.
Realtek chipsets indeed act like Winmodem (LT) modem chipsets
do for modems: minimize the amount of hardware needed (to save
money on that), and do as much as possible in the (driver)
software. Meaning, fairly large, complex and cpu-intensive
driver code.

--fred
Received on Sun Jul 06 2003 - 17:49:00 BST