Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 09:10:18 -0700 From: "Ted Mittelstaedt" <tedm@toybox.placo.com> To: "Abrie Lintvelt" <abrie@aboutit.co.za>, "freebsd-questions" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Problem with Realtek 8139C and 8139D NIC in 5.4 Message-ID: <LOBBIFDAGNMAMLGJJCKNGEIKFBAA.tedm@toybox.placo.com> In-Reply-To: <428F02E8.4040107@aboutit.co.za>
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The Realtek 8139 cards are a pretty cheap chipset that many others have had problems with. Try a different card from a different manufacturer. It is probably some BIOS setting in your motherboard. You might try setting the board to non-pnp OS to allow the board to assign resources. Ted > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Abrie Lintvelt > Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:44 AM > To: freebsd-questions > Subject: Problem with Realtek 8139C and 8139D NIC in 5.4 > > > Hiya Guys > > I've recently started "playing" with FreeBSD. I use it at > home on a pc > for our ADSL connection, just for that added security. > Worked fine with 5.2, except that my WiFi connection was a > little buggy, > so I decided to upgrade to 5.4 > > After installing 5.4, my ed(4) card stopped working. It's > quite an old > card, so I decided to upgrade it as well. > Got myself a new RTL8139D card, and installed it only to keep getting > the error that it "couldn't map ports/memory". The system has 2 other > NICs in in as well, > A RTL8139A, and a Gigabyte Super 108 NIC using the ath(4) driver. > Uninstalled the other Realtek Card, same problem. Uninstalled > the WiFi, > same problem, > Uninstall ALL other NICs in the system and only leave in the 8139D, > problem still persists. > > Over to plan B, get another NIC from another unused PC. This > time it's > an 8139C. Same problem still. I'm really out of options. > Any way to resolve this issue? > > I'm kinda desperate to get my system up and running again. > > System Specs: > AMD Duron 700 > Gigabyte GA-7IX Motherboard (quite old I know, but the PC just stood > there doing nothing :) > 3dfx Voodoo Banshee AGP Display (see M/B note) > RTL8139A NIC (dunno where I got this one) > RTL8139D NIC > Gigabyte GN-WPEAG Wifi NIC > 128MB Ram > 6GB HDD > > Thanx for all the help. > > Abrie Linvelt > Web Developer > About IT dot Web > Tel: +27 12 460 1000 (w) > Fax: +27 12 460 1000(w) > Mobile: +27 82 638 6345 > www.aboutitweb.co.za > > _______________________________________________ > 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" >
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