From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Mar 28 07:13:08 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2D8F116A400 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:13:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com) Received: from mx4.x15.net (mx4.x15.net [69.55.237.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 005CE43D46 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:13:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions@voidcaptain.com) Received: from j1.x15.net [63.196.213.76] by mx4.x15.net with ESMTP id 603050111X1FO8O3000FIyO4 for ; Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:13:07 +0000 Message-ID: <4428E1E4.30005@voidcaptain.com> Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2006 23:12:36 -0800 From: Pete Slagle MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Realtek 8201 driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Mar 2006 07:13:08 -0000 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: 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?