From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 26 13:07:18 2003 Return-Path: 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 D7A7C16A4B3; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:07:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from dahlia.noc.ucla.edu (dahlia.noc.ucla.edu [169.232.46.11]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 10A1C44060; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:07:18 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from tafields@ucla.edu) Received: from helen.ucla.edu ([149.142.158.245]) by dahlia.noc.ucla.edu (8.12.8p2/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h8QK6pbM005655; Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:06:51 -0700 Message-Id: <5.0.0.25.2.20030926125436.02396d70@mail.ucla.edu> X-Sender: tafields@mail.ucla.edu X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.0 Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 13:08:46 -0700 To: From: "Tony A, Fields" In-Reply-To: References: <5.0.0.25.2.20030926090033.024539e0@mail.ucla.edu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed cc: grog@FreeBSD.org cc: clwilson@ucla.edu cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: RE: RealTek Nic Chip X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2003 20:07:19 -0000 Oh, I forgot to mention that even though the on-board nic is enabled what I did see in the boot log as unknown was something like "if_fwe0 ethernet over firewire" ??? Mystery to me. Also ifconfig shows fwe0: flags = 8802 mtu 1500 ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx ch 1 dma -1 where xx is the physical mac address. ???? At 02:44 PM 9/26/03 -0400, you wrote: >Check the PC's bio's to insure you have the onboard Nic enabled. >Since you can not see the onboard Nic in the boot log as an unknown >device the motherboard bios must have the Nic disabled. > >-----Original Message----- >From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org >[mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Tony A, >Fields >Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:05 PM >To: Greg 'groggy' Lehey >Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org; clwilson@ucla.edu >Subject: Re: RealTek Nic Chip > >Thanks for the input Greg. > >Please note that I have looked at the output from ifconfig. Also >note that >the driver recognizes that the DFE-530TX uses the RealTek 8139 chip. > >Any other suggestions on how to get the RealTek 8201BL chip to work? > >At 11:49 AM 9/26/03 +0930, you wrote: > >On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:07:43 -0700, Tony A, Fields >wrote: > > > Howdy, > > > Great OS! Smooth as silk! Extremely fast and responsive. > > > > > > Have question though. I had to put a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI card >in one of > > > the PCI slots in the system that the OS was installed on because >the > > > motherboard (SHUTTLE FN41) has an integrated RealTek 8201BL NIC >that was > > > not responding during installation. I was wondering if there is >any way to > > > get the chip to function? > > > > > > When I boot and look at the output of dmesg I note the >following: > > > rl0: port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem > > > 0xee000000-0xee0000ff irq 11 at device 6.0 pci1 > > > >Heh. That's a Realtek card. <<<<<<<<< DFE-530TX uses RealTek > >Driver >>>>>>> > > > > > Any ideas on whether I can get the on-board NIC to work? > > > >Well, the first thing to do is to look at the output from ifconfig >and > >pciconf -vl. > > > >Greg > >-- > >When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. > >If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original >recipients. > >For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html > >See complete headers for address and phone numbers > > >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to >"freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"