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Date:      Tue, 5 Feb 2002 19:46:06 -0500
From:      Skip Ford <skip.ford@verizon.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Install LinxPROEthernet
Message-ID:  <20020206004837.ZIBL379.out019.verizon.net@pool-141-150-235-204.delv.east.verizon.net>
In-Reply-To: <no.id>; from timewax@web.de on Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:31:13PM %2B0100

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Holger Bauer wrote:
> Hi there,
> 
> i am quite new to FreeBSD. I am trying to setup my NIC on FreeBSD 4.4 for 
> some days without success. It's a LinxPROEthernet-card with a Realtek8139 
> chip. So i thought the rl-driver might do it's job. But unfortunately it 
> doesn't. :(
> At systemstartup my card is recognized but not configured.
> dmesg-output for NIC:
> rl0: <RealTek 8129 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 
> 0xcfffdf00-0xcfffdfff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0
> rl0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> rl0: unknown device ID: ffff
> device_probe_and_attach: rl0 attach returned 6
> 
> I configured my kernel and made sure rl-drivers are compiled in. Card 
> doesnt show up on ' ifconfig -a '
> Well is there a way to get my card up and running?
> May upgrade to 4.5 solve my problem? RTFM comments are welcome as long as 
> you point to the FM. :)
> thx for any help in advance

Another wild guess...if this machine has ISA slots and a card in one of
the slots, make sure you have enabled the ISA memory hole in the bios.
That can also produce strange conflicts.

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Skip  ID: 0x7EDDDB0A
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