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From: "Philip Murray" <me@philth.net.nz>
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Subject: Re: Problem with rl0 configuration
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 20:10:49 +1300
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You should try turning off "Plug and Play OS" in your BIOS

Cheers

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Moss" <rmoss@bigpond.net.au>
To: "Allen Richon" <arichon@molsol.com>; <Freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org>
Sent: Saturday, November 03, 2001 7:43 PM
Subject: Re: Problem with rl0 configuration


Try placing the ethernet card in a different PCI slot.

If that doesn't work, i suggest the card my be faulty.  The realtek
chipsets are known to be extremely flakey.  I recommend an Intel
EtherExpress ethernet card.

rob.

At 09:54 AM 2/11/2001 -0500, Allen Richon wrote:



>Hello,
>
>I am trying to install FreeBSD4.4.1 on my PC with no success regarding the
>Ethernet card. My PC platform is an HP-Pavivilion-7850,
>PentiumIII-933Mhz.  My NIC is an HP EN1207D-TX PCI 10/100 Fast Ethernet
>adapter.  DOS probe shows the card is set to irq5, I/O port 0x1400, Memory
>location 0x10001.
>
>I have built a custom kernel to handle the network card as well as a
>couple of other features. When the system boots, I get the following
>output (abbreviated to remove the usual lines that appear):
>
>

>rl0: couldnąt map ports/memory
>device_probe_and_attach: rl0 attach returned 6


>
>Allen Richon
>



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