From owner-freebsd-hardware Sun Oct 15 13:40:19 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (termroom.bsdcon.org [206.55.247.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3024D37B502 for ; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:40:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.0/8.9.3) with ESMTP id e9FKgQh00684; Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:42:26 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200010152042.e9FKgQh00684@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Luuk van Dijk Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rl0: couldn't map ports/memory In-reply-to: Your message of "Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:47:57 +0200." <39E9996D.CCFB1858@xs4all.nl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sun, 15 Oct 2000 13:42:26 -0700 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org > L.S. > > At boot time my realtek 8139 pci NIC gets detected but fails > to initialize with the kernel message > > rl0: irq 9 at device 16.0 on pci0 > rl0: couldn't map ports/memory > device_probe_and_attach: rl0 attach returned 6 > > Could it be that I have too many pci devices ( I have 2 extra ata controller > cards with 2 controllers each)? Try setting "PnP OS" to "No" in your BIOS config; the problem is that the controller has not been assigned any resources. > Would it likely be solved with a less cheap ethernet card? No, it's a resource allocation issue. I made some changes in -stable and -current a month or so back which improve the situation a little; you might want to try updating. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hardware" in the body of the message