RealTek Nic Chip

[Tony A, Fields]

Greg,

Sorry for the mangling??

Sorry that you don't seem to understand my problem or I just am not making 
myself clear? Please let me restate.

I have two network interface cards. One is being recognized but the other 
is not. The one that is recognized is the D-Link DFE-530TX.

After running the pciconfi -vl  there are two network interfaces listed

none7 at pci0:4:0
nVidia Corp
nForce MCP2 Networking adapter

the other

rl0 at pci1:6:0
D-Link
DFE-530tx

is there any way that I can get the other adpater to work? And again sorry 
for being a dweeb and trying your patience.


>Horrible reply mangling.  I won't reply to any more messages mangled
>this badly.
>
>  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 = 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
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