From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jul 9 07:52:25 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BF0516A4DA for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 07:52:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@mawer.org) Received: from mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.185]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C7F5743D46 for ; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 07:52:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from fbsd-questions@mawer.org) Received: from [127.0.0.1] (c220-239-234-69.thorn1.nsw.optusnet.com.au [220.239.234.69]) by mail04.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k697qAJi024051; Sun, 9 Jul 2006 17:52:16 +1000 Message-ID: <44B0B62D.4080305@mawer.org> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2006 21:54:21 -1000 From: Antony Mawer User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.4 (Windows/20060516) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rob Hurle References: <20060709113918.G2300@freebsd.connect-a.com.au> In-Reply-To: <20060709113918.G2300@freebsd.connect-a.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD 6.1 rl interface X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 09 Jul 2006 07:52:25 -0000 On 8/07/2006 5:10 PM, Rob Hurle wrote: > But the killer is that I want to run 2 ethernet interfaces. > The on-board one is fxp0 (Intel) and comes up fine. The other is a > PCI card with the RealTek 8139D chipset, so I'm expecting a rl0 > interface. I've put if_rl_load="YES" into the /boot/loader.conf filem > but the system does not seem to like it, giving me the message "failed > to register: 17" at module load time, and then "no driver attached" > at bring-up-interface time. /var/log/messages extract is as follows: ... > Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: module_register: module pci/rl already exists! > Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: Module pci/rl failed to register: 17 This means the driver is already in the kernel, so you do not need to load it manually by placing the if_rl_load="YES" line in your loader.conf. > Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: pcib5: at device 30.0 on pci0 > Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: pci5: on pcib5 > Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: pci5: at device 2.0 (no driver attached) So the network card is found, but the rl driver doesn't detect that it's a Realtek NIC and bind to it. It may simply be a case of having to add the appropriate PCI device IDs to the driver. Could you provide the output of "pciconf -lv"? > (what is "plip0" - did not occur on FreeBSD 4.6?) This is the IP-over-parallel port interface; unless you're using a network connection over the parallel port you can usually disable this. Regards Antony