if_vr(4) and DFE520-TX

John Baldwin jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Jan 14 20:50:32 UTC 2013


On Monday, January 14, 2013 6:52:18 am Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
> YongHyeon PYUN wrote on 14.01.2013 10:15:
> > On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:49:13PM +0400, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
> >> Ok, I got some details. It's an DFE-520TX (/C1 or rev. C1). I crafted an
> >> patch attached, but whenever kldloading the modified if_vr, I got this:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >> I also tried to apply VR_Q_NEEDALIGN quirk, but nothing is changed. Any
> >> hints?
> >
> > I recall D-Link was one of notorious vendor which used to
> > completely change its chip set in later revisions without notice. So
> > I'm afraid the controller you have may not be a VIA manufactured
> > one.
> > Could you take a picture of the chip set of controller and let
> > others see it? I guess it could be a RealTek 8139 or 8139C+.
> 
> Here they are. Both front and back for the case (see no traces of 
> RealTek though):
> 
> http://s2.postimage.org/9nvkrlpqx/IMAG1040.jpg
> http://s2.postimage.org/4qi06hnrt/IMAG1041.jpg

Did your cards come in a box with a driver CD?  The manual I found online 
claimed the CD contains drivers for Linux.  Those might be useful for 
determining which chipset these adapters use.

-- 
John Baldwin


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