From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Sep 21 17:17:18 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.magmacom.com (mx1.magmacom.com [206.191.0.217]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C63D137B423 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 17:17:15 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail2.magma.ca (mail2y.magma.ca [206.191.0.227]) by mx1.magmacom.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA04578 for ; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:17:15 -0400 (EDT) Received: (from dan@localhost) by mail2.magma.ca (8.9.3/8.9.3) id UAA01124; Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:17:14 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 21 Sep 2000 20:17:14 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <200009220017.UAA01124@mail2.magma.ca> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Danny Byers Subject: Aopen NIC - RealTek Chipset ??? Cc: X-Account: dan X-Sender-IP: 209.217.122.16 Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG hey everyone, I have another problem. Specs: FreeBSD 4.0-RELEASE - modded kernel AMD Duron 600 64Mb RAM Intel EtherExpress 10/100 NIC AOpen AON 325 10/100 NIC Problem: After browsing the net and routing an internal network through my AOpen NIC for days (the net comes in through my Intel NIC, then routes internally through my AOpen NIC to a hub), tonight I found that I had lost net access and I rebooted my BSD box ('cause I couldn't find the problem). When the box came back up my AOpen NIC didn't show up! (green light is still ON on the NIC) Booting the system, my Intel NIC is on IRQ 11 and the AOpen NIC shows up on IRQ 10. I tried swapping PCI slots and now the AOpen NIC shows up on IRQ 11 and it is still undetectable - by the kernel? Supposedly, the AOpen NIC uses the RealTek chipset (what I read from their manual that I got with the card) so I had enabled support for this in the kernel... and it had worked perfectly until this afternoon. I have a modified kernel and I have enabled the RealTek device in the kernel file with the MII bus support: device miibus # MII bus support device rl # RealTek 8129/8139 and I obviously have the Intel NIC enabled for fxp(#) Does anyone have a clue as to why this NIC would just drop out from being detected by the kernel when I boot the box up? when the system loads my rc.conf and tries to assign the address to this AOpen card it says that it (rl0) is not found. Maybe it is a hardware failure and I need to replace the NIC? Thank you very much in advance! Dan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message