Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:36 -0800 From: Pete Slagle <freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Realtek 8201 driver? Message-ID: <4428E1E4.30005@voidcaptain.com>
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Short version:
Does anyone have an ASUS P5RD1-VM on-board NIC or the Realtek 8201 chip
working with 6-stable? If so, which driver did you use?
Details:
I needed another quick and cheap box, so the other day I bought a ASUS
P5RD1-VM motherboard on sale for almost nothing and booted up the
6.0-RELEASE CD. (I'll upgrade it to stable when I get the network
interface working.)
There is a built-in NIC which is apparently a Realtek RTL8201CL PHY,
although `pciconf -lv` says Acer Labs perpetrated it. In either case,
it's not listed on the hardware compatibility list and it isn't found at
boot time by a GENERIC kernel:
pci0: <network, ethernet> at 27.0 (no driver attached)
The link light is on and the BIOS assigns it an IRQ so it does seem to
be enabled and working at the firmware level.
I googled around for quite awhile and found a lot of questions about the
8201, but no answers and no indication that there is a FreeBSD driver
for it.
So, does anyone have any pointers about which, if any, driver might work
with this motherboard's built-in ethernet interface?
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