Date: Sun, 9 Jul 2006 13:10:39 +1000 (EST) From: Rob Hurle <rob@coombs.anu.edu.au> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: FreeBSD 6.1 rl interface Message-ID: <20060709113918.G2300@freebsd.connect-a.com.au>
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Dear People, I'm hoping to upgrade from FreeBSD 4.6.1 on a Pentium II to FreeBSD 6.1 on a P5 3.2GHz. Of course, I'm doing a fresh install on the new system. There's been some annoyances - Openoffice.org is still at 1.1.5 rather than 2.0 on the release, and KDE desn't seem to want to run screen savers, sound does not work, etc, etc. I am working through these. But the killer is that I want to run 2 ethernet interfaces. The on-board one is fxp0 (Intel) and comes up fine. The other is a PCI card with the RealTek 8139D chipset, so I'm expecting a rl0 interface. I've put if_rl_load="YES" into the /boot/loader.conf filem but the system does not seem to like it, giving me the message "failed to register: 17" at module load time, and then "no driver attached" at bring-up-interface time. /var/log/messages extract is as follows: ----------------------------------------- Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE #0: Sun May 7 04:42:56 UTC 2006 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: root@opus.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: module_register: module pci/rl already exists! Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: Module pci/rl failed to register: 17 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: module_register: module cardbus/rl already exists! Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: Module cardbus/rl failed to register: 17 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: module_register: module rl/miibus already exists! Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: Module rl/miibus failed to register: 17 ..... Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: pcib5: <ACPI PCI-PCI bridge> at device 30.0 on pci0 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: pci5: <ACPI PCI bus> on pcib5 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: pci5: <network, ethernet> at device 2.0 (no driver attached) Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: fxp0: <Intel 82801GB (ICH7) 10/100 Ethernet> port 0x1100-0x113f mem 0x52000000-0x52000fff i rq 20 at device 8.0 on pci5 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on fxp0 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: inphy0: <i82562ET 10/100 media interface> on miibus0 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: fxp0: Ethernet address: 00:16:76:75:db:28 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 31.0 on pci0 Jul 9 09:14:08 grandpa kernel: isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0 ----------------------------------------- `ifconfig` gives the result: fxp0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 options=8<VLAN_MTU> inet6 fe80::216:76ff:fe75:db28%fxp0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1 inet 192.168.87.7 netmask 0xfffffff0 broadcast 192.168.87.15 ether 00:16:76:75:db:28 media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) status: active plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,NEEDSGIANT> mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> mtu 16384 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 (what is "plip0" - did not occur on FreeBSD 4.6?) The system is very much a straight out of the box, FreeBSD 6.1 release, as can be seen from the above extract, and the chip has RTL8139D printed on it (maybe "rl" is wrong, but "re" is the only other 8139 option, and it doesn't work either). Any clues would be most welcome. Thank you all very much. Cheers, Rob Hurle ----------------------------------------------------- Rob Hurle Faculty of Asian Studies, ANU Home address and contacts: Tel: +61 2 6247 2397 PO Box 4013 Fax: +61 2 6247 2397 Ainslie Cell phone: 0417 293 603 Australia e-mail: rob@coombs.anu.edu.au -----------------------------------------------------
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