NetGear PCMCIA card (GA518)

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 08:50:43PM +0100, Paul G Webster wrote:
 > Good day all,
 > 
 > Im trying to get the PCMCIA 100/1000 nic in topic working, someone has
 > managed it before: 
 > 
 > http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/current/2004-11/0857.html
 > 
 > But that patch wont apply cleanly, dmesg reports on card entry (with no
 > patch): 
 > 
 > re0: <RealTek 8169SB/8110SB Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port
 > 0xf000-0xf0ff mem 0xfc007000-0xfc0071ff irq 16 at device 0.0 on cardbus0
 > re0: PHY read failed
 > re0: MII without any phy!
 > device_attach: re0 attach returned 6
 > 
 > Anyone able tend a hand?
 > 

It seems that the controller is recognized by re(4) but
initialization was not successful. Since your controller is not
second generation of RealTek 8168/8111 I think the issue could be
related with cardbus driver. imp@ may have more idea what's
happening here.

 > -- Thank you for your time
 > -- paul g webster

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon