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Date:      Fri, 26 Sep 2003 09:04:54 -0700
From:      "Tony A, Fields" <tafields@ucla.edu>
To:        "Greg 'groggy' Lehey" <grog@FreeBSD.org>
Cc:        clwilson@ucla.edu
Subject:   Re: RealTek Nic Chip
Message-ID:  <5.0.0.25.2.20030926090033.024539e0@mail.ucla.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20030926021919.GV32280@wantadilla.lemis.com>
References:  <5.0.0.25.2.20030925150515.024443b0@mail.ucla.edu> <5.0.0.25.2.20030925150515.024443b0@mail.ucla.edu>

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Thanks for the input Greg.

Please note that I have looked at the output from ifconfig. Also note that 
the driver recognizes that the DFE-530TX uses the RealTek 8139 chip.

Any other suggestions on how to get the RealTek 8201BL chip to work?

At 11:49 AM 9/26/03 +0930, you wrote:
>On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:07:43 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote:
> > Howdy,
> > Great OS! Smooth as silk! Extremely fast and responsive.
> >
> > Have question though. I had to put a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI card in one of
> > the PCI slots in the system that the OS was installed on because the
> > motherboard (SHUTTLE FN41) has an integrated RealTek 8201BL NIC that was
> > not responding during installation. I was wondering if there is any way to
> > get the chip to function?
> >
> > When I boot and look at the output of dmesg I note the following:
> > rl0: <D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
> > 0xee000000-0xee0000ff irq 11 at device 6.0 pci1
>
>Heh.  That's a Realtek card.   <<<<<<<<< DFE-530TX uses RealTek 
>Driver >>>>>>>
>
> > Any ideas on whether I can get the on-board NIC to work?
>
>Well, the first thing to do is to look at the output from ifconfig and
>pciconf -vl.
>
>Greg
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