Date: Sat, 27 Sep 2003 12:22:52 +0930 From: Greg 'groggy' Lehey <grog@FreeBSD.org> To: "Tony A, Fields" <tafields@ucla.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: RealTek Nic Chip Message-ID: <20030927025252.GL16008@wantadilla.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <5.0.0.25.2.20030926125436.02396d70@mail.ucla.edu> References: <5.0.0.25.2.20030926090033.024539e0@mail.ucla.edu> <5.0.0.25.2.20030926125436.02396d70@mail.ucla.edu>
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--+rbkueAQrkWPpfRR Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable [Format recovered--see http://www.lemis.com/email/email-format.html] Horrible reply mangling. I won't reply to any more messages mangled this badly. On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 13:08:46 -0700, Tony A. Fields wrote: > At 02:44 PM 9/26/03 -0400, you wrote: >> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:05 PM >>> At 11:49 AM 9/26/03 +0930, you wrote: >>>> On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:07:43 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote: >>>>> >>>>> 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. >>> >>> Check the PC's bio's to insure you have the onboard Nic enabled. >>> Since you can not see the onboard Nic in the boot log as an unknown >>> device the motherboard bios must have the Nic disabled. >> >> 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? Well, it would be good to report on what I suggested above. > Oh, I forgot to mention that even though the on-board nic is enabled what= I > did see in the boot log as unknown was something like "if_fwe0 ethernet > over firewire" ??? Mystery to me. What's the mystery? That's Ethernet over firewire, but you should know that already. > Also ifconfig shows > > fwe0: flags =3D 8802 <BROADCAST, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx > ch 1 dma -1 > > where xx is the physical mac address. ???? What's the problem? Greg -- When replying to this message, please take care not to mutilate the original text. =20 For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/email.html See complete headers for address and phone numbers. NOTE: Due to the currently active Microsoft-based worms, I am limiting all incoming mail to 131,072 bytes. This is enough for normal mail, but not for large attachments. Please send these as URLs. --+rbkueAQrkWPpfRR Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.0 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQE/dPuEIubykFB6QiMRArotAJ9KfF0xjIkFhmqxezxXF8PSNdFA/QCeK/ZW 3QHBiQP8VDuqzEsFmwG400s= =+/lx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --+rbkueAQrkWPpfRR--
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