Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2006 21:37:31 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Dinesh Nair <dinesh@alphaque.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1 Message-ID: <20060816123731.GE45370@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <44E05598.20004@alphaque.com> References: <44E040CF.9080205@alphaque.com> <44E05598.20004@alphaque.com>
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On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:51:04PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > > On 08/14/06 17:22 Dinesh Nair said the following: > > > >i've got a single board computer with VIA C3 Samuel 2, 256MB RAM and 4 > >onboard Realtek 8139C+ NICs. I'm attempting to get FreeBSD 6.1-STABLE > >working on them, but the realtek NICs just don't seem to want to work. > >booting up led to a kernel trap with the following, > > based on a pointer from luigi rizzo, i disabled the check for the 8139C+ in > /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rl.c to force the rl driver to bind to the card, and > that seemed to do the trick in getting it to work. ifconfig still shows > that the media is set to 'none' and a missing status line, but the box is > pingable at the least. > If the media is set to 'none' you couldn't send anything from re(4) as recent changes checks whether the link is present(Receiver should work). Does old(working) version also show 'none' for media? Do you use manual media configuration instead of 'auto'? -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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