From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 14 10:56:18 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5942916A4DE for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:56:18 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: from ns2.alphaque.com (ns2.alphaque.com [202.75.47.153]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 092FD43D58 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:56:16 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Received: (qmail 72865 invoked by uid 0); 14 Aug 2006 10:56:15 -0000 Received: from lucifer.net-gw.com (HELO prophet.alphaque.com) (202.75.47.153) by lucifer.net-gw.com with SMTP; 14 Aug 2006 10:56:15 -0000 Received: from [127.0.0.1] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by prophet.alphaque.com (8.13.6/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k7EAp5Fr054646; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:51:05 +0800 (MYT) (envelope-from dinesh@alphaque.com) Message-ID: <44E05598.20004@alphaque.com> Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 18:51:04 +0800 From: Dinesh Nair User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD i386; en-US; rv:1.8b) Gecko/20060213 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org References: <44E040CF.9080205@alphaque.com> In-Reply-To: <44E040CF.9080205@alphaque.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 10:56:18 -0000 On 08/14/06 17:22 Dinesh Nair said the following: > > i've got a single board computer with VIA C3 Samuel 2, 256MB RAM and 4 > onboard Realtek 8139C+ NICs. I'm attempting to get FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE > working on them, but the realtek NICs just don't seem to want to work. > booting up led to a kernel trap with the following, based on a pointer from luigi rizzo, i disabled the check for the 8139C+ in /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c to force the rl driver to bind to the card, and that seemed to do the trick in getting it to work. ifconfig still shows that the media is set to 'none' and a missing status line, but the box is pingable at the least. -- Regards, /\_/\ "All dogs go to heaven." dinesh@alphaque.com (0 0) http://www.openmalaysiablog.com/ +==========================----oOO--(_)--OOo----==========================+ | for a in past present future; do | | for b in clients employers associates relatives neighbours pets; do | | echo "The opinions here in no way reflect the opinions of my $a $b." | | done; done | +=========================================================================+