From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Feb 7 8:37:54 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from smtp.web.de (smtp02.web.de [217.72.192.151]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D574537B41D for ; Thu, 7 Feb 2002 08:37:47 -0800 (PST) Received: from [217.88.168.111] by smtp.web.de with smtp (Exim 4.11 #37) id 16YrYL-0006dh-00 for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:37:41 +0100 Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.0.20020207173403.00a60a50@217.72.192.134> X-Sender: timewax@web.de@217.72.192.134 X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 17:40:09 +0100 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org From: Holger Bauer Subject: Re: Install LinxPROEthernet In-Reply-To: <20020205135306.GE1349@raggedclown.net> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020205132310.00a0a7f0@217.72.192.134> <5.1.0.14.0.20020205132310.00a0a7f0@217.72.192.134> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 14:53 05.02.02 +0100, you wrote: >On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:31:13PM +0100, 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: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem > > 0xcfffdf00-0xcfffdfff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0 > > rl0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff >-------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ > >That is the problem, every NIC (supposedly) has a unique hardware >address, this is not a valid one. >FreeBSD supports the Realtek chip just fine. >You may have a duff card (try it in another machine). >Or, and this is a long-shot, but it happened to me that I had >Windows and FreeBSD dual booting from a system once, and if I soft >re-booted from Windows to FreeBSD, exactly this happened. Power cycling >cured it. Something was not being reset properly. > >Or try another slot in the machine. > >-- >Regards >Cliff Thx for all help so long. Yes i dualboot freeBSD on a windowsmachine, so i tried your tip. Inserted NIC in all PCISlots. I also dont have any isaslots on my board. And the card just works fine under windows. Maybe i am just a bit naive, but cant i fake vendorID? Or tell BSD to ignore it? Is there a possibility that my card isn't supported at all, although its got a realtekchip on it? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message