Date: Fri, 9 Jan 2004 00:17:10 +0100 From: Paul Schenkeveld <fb-hardware@psconsult.nl> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Unsupported RealTel 8139 Message-ID: <20040108231710.GA65119@psconsult.nl>
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Hi Bill and all, Seeking replacement for dumb terminals by small diskless FreeBSD workstations I found a small VIA Eden based single board system which fits all mys customers needs, except the on-board RealTek 8139 doesn't work with a 4.9-R kernel. I've set up a PXE environment and during kernel initialisation rl0 is recognised but reports: "rl0: unknown device ID: 1400". So I tried putting this device ID into if_rl.c. Now I get: rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xe5810000 0xe58100ff irq 15 at device 13.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:00:00:00:00:00 At the end of kernel initialisation I see: Sending DHCP Discover packet from interface rl0 (00:00:00:00:00:00) which is obvious but does not work of course. Any chance of getting this NIC to work? I've got one unit here to test, I've got a DDB kernel at hand but only a PS/2 keyboard and VGA screen to communicate. Please let me know if I need to provide any more information or if I can dig up more details using DDB or a patched kernel. Here's the print on top of the chip: RTL8139C 39118A1 337B TAIWAN Regards, Paul Schenkeveld, Consultant PSconsult ICT Services BV
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