From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 16 01:22:29 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA17717 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 01:22:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.eunet.ch (mail.eunet.ch [146.228.10.7]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id BAA17704 for ; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 01:22:18 -0700 (PDT) Received: from e-link.ch by mail.eunet.ch (8.7.5/1.34) id IAA09381; Fri, 16 Aug 1996 08:22:09 GMT Received: from zeus by e-link.ch with uucp (Smail3.1.29.1 #3) id m0urKCo-000LHLC; Fri, 16 Aug 96 10:24 MET DST Received: by zeus.e-link.ch (UUPC/extended 1.12p); Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:22:07 +0000 Message-ID: <32144bcf.zeus@zeus.e-link.ch> Date: Fri, 16 Aug 1996 10:22:06 +0000 From: "Cleto Pescia" Organization: Eurisco Information Systems, Switzerland Reply-To: "Cleto Pescia" To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD doesn't recognize RTL8029 PCI Ethernet Card Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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 ). 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