6 Jul
2003
6 Jul
'03
10:49 a.m.
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