Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:38:45 +1000 From: Andrew Robinson <A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: marlon@freemail.gr Subject: Re: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD Message-ID: <20060803123845.GN59927@ms.unimelb.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <20060803120045.C0D5616A655@hub.freebsd.org> References: <20060803120045.C0D5616A655@hub.freebsd.org>
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Hi Marlon, This thread may (or may not) prove useful to you: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011012.html Good luck! Andrew > From: marlon@freemail.gr > Subject: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <44d1c23354f779.69917338@freemail.gr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" > > > Hello. > > I have an Acer Aspire 1600 laptop with a RealTek 8139 integrated network card. > The card is not identified at all in neither FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE nor in > FreeBSD 5-STABLE, not even in DragonFlyBSD (which is a fork of FreeBSD 5 IIRC). > "pciconf -lv" does not report back any information on the card at all. > > Linux and Windows however can identify the card as "RealTek 8139 chip type > 'RTL-8100B/8139D' at 0x1800-0x18ff, Memory: EC005000-EC0050FF, IRQ 19". > > Since FreeBSD is a lot better for my computing needs, is there a way I can > get the above card to work correctly (or even work at all) in FreeBSD? > > Thanks in advance. > -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: a.robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au
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