Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 14:53:06 +0100 From: Cliff Sarginson <cliff@raggedclown.net> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Install LinxPROEthernet Message-ID: <20020205135306.GE1349@raggedclown.net> In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.0.20020205132310.00a0a7f0@217.72.192.134> References: <5.1.0.14.0.20020205132310.00a0a7f0@217.72.192.134>
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On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 01:31:13PM +0100, Holger Bauer wrote: > Hi there, > > i am quite new to FreeBSD. I am trying to setup my NIC on FreeBSD 4.4 for > some days without success. It's a LinxPROEthernet-card with a Realtek8139 > chip. So i thought the rl-driver might do it's job. But unfortunately it > doesn't. :( > At systemstartup my card is recognized but not configured. > dmesg-output for NIC: > rl0: <RealTek 8129 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem > 0xcfffdf00-0xcfffdfff irq 3 at device 11.0 on pci0 > rl0: Ethernet address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff -------------------------^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ That is the problem, every NIC (supposedly) has a unique hardware address, this is not a valid one. FreeBSD supports the Realtek chip just fine. You may have a duff card (try it in another machine). Or, and this is a long-shot, but it happened to me that I had Windows and FreeBSD dual booting from a system once, and if I soft re-booted from Windows to FreeBSD, exactly this happened. Power cycling cured it. Something was not being reset properly. Or try another slot in the machine. -- Regards Cliff To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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