Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:22:06 +0000 From: "Cleto Pescia" <cleto@e-link.ch> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD doesn't recognize RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Card Message-ID: <32144bcf.zeus@zeus.e-link.ch>
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Dear Sirs, I've just installed FreeBSD 2.1.0 on the my new server, and I've run into a problem with the Ethernet network card: FreeBSD seems to be find something on the PCI bus while probing it, but then it can't assign it a passing driver. Here is what appears on screen during the boot: pci0:11: vendor=0x10ec, device=0x8029, class=network (ethernet) [no driver assigned] map(10): io(e000) The card uses a Realtek Semi-Conductor Co., Ltd. RTL8029 chipset, and it usually works as NE2000-compatible card -- at least I could make it work this way under Win 95 (but that's not a great reference <g>). When I use the diagnostics diskette that came with the card, I can see the following configuration: I/O Base = E000H Interrupt = 10 Full-duplex = Enabled This is the HW configuration I'm using: - Mainboard ASUS P/I-P55T2P4 with a Pentium-100 CPU and 512KB cache - 32MB RAM (60ns) - Adaptec AHA-2940 PCI SCSI-2 adapter (BIOS v. 1.21) - IBM DORS-32160 S82C 2GB SCSI hard-disk drive - Pioneer DR-124X 1.01 4X SCSI CD-ROM drive - FDD controller (on the mainboard) - 2x serial, 1x parallel ports (on the mainboard) Apart the network card, everything seems to be working just fine! As an interim solution, I switched to an old NE2000-compatible ISA card and that works perfectly as ed0. I've been using Linux for several years now, and this is the first time I install FreeBSD on a PC, and I'm really impressed by it. I'll use this machine as an Internet gateway server for my visually-impaired customers and I think I've made the right decision regarding the OS! Best Regards, Cleto Pescia Eurisco Information Systems
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