Freebsd 5.4 not finding my NIC

Vizion vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com
Thu May 26 21:27:27 PDT 2005


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On Thursday 26 May 2005 21:04,  the author Raman contributed to the dialogue 
on Re: Freebsd 5.4 not finding my NIC:

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>On 5/26/05, Vizion <vizion at vizion.occoxmail.com> wrote:
>> On Thursday 26 May 2005 18:25,  the author Raman contributed to the
>> dialogue
>>
>> on Freebsd 5.4 not finding my NIC:
>> >Hi,
>> >
>> >I added a Realtek 8029 nic.  It is in the hardware list for 5.4 and
>> >should be found as ed.  I plug it in and FreeBSD does not seem to
>> >detect it.  What should I do since it looks like Realtek does not have
>> >any drivers for it.
>>
>> Please paste  the contents of /var/run/dmesg.boot into your response.

>Here is my dmesg.boot.  I noticed that it does find the realtek card
>in here but when I do ifconfig I do not see it, or in the
>/stand/sysinstall when tyring to configure network devices.
>
>Copyright (c) 1992-2005 The FreeBSD Project.
>Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
>             The Regents of the University of California.  All rights
> reserved. Freebsd 5.4-RELEASE #: Sun May   8 10:21:06 UTC 2005
>       root at harlow.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC
>Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
>CPU: Pentium/P55C (166.59-MHz 586-class CPU)
>     Origin = "GenuineIntel"        Id = 0x543  Stepping = 3
>     Features = 0x8001bf<FPU, VME, DE, PSE, TSC, MSR, MCE, CX8, MMX>
>real memory = 301989888 (288MB)
>avail memory = 285876224 (272MB)
>Intel Pentium detected, installing workaround for F00F bug
>npx0: <math processor> on motherboard
>npx0: INT 16 interface
>cpu0 on motherboard
>pcib0: <Host to PCI bridge> pcibus 0 on motherboard
>pir0: <PCI Interrupt Routing Table: 8 Entries> on motherboard
>pci0: <PCI bus> on pcib0
>pci0: <display, VGA> at device 12.0 (no drive attached)
>ed0: <NE2000 PCI Ethernet (Realtek 8029)> port 0x1040-0x105f irq at
>device 14.0 on pci0
>device_attach: ed0 returned 6
>tl0: <Compaq Netelligent 10/100tx Embedded UTP> port 0x1020-0x102f irq
>11 at device 16.0 on pci0
>miibus0: <MII bus> on tl0
>lxtphy0: <LX970 10/100 media interface> on miibus0
>lxtphy0: 100baseFX, 100baseFX-FDX, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX,
>100baseTX-FDX auto
>tlphy0: <ThunderLAN 10baseT media interface> on miibus0
>tlphy0: 10base2/BNC, 10base5/AUI
>tl0: ethernet address: 00:08:c7:a0:34:d2
>tl0: if_start running deferred for Giant
>isab0: <PCI-ISA bridge> at device 20.0 on pci0
>isa0: <ISA bus> on isab0
>atapci0: <VIA 82C586B UDMA33 controller> port 0x1030-0x103f, 0x376,
>0x170-0x177, 0x3f6, 0x1f0-0x1f7 at device 20.1 on pci0
>ata0: channel #0 on atapci0
>ata1: channel #1 on atapci0
>uhci0: <VIA 83C572 USB controller> port 0x100-0x101f irq 11 at device
>20.2 on pci0
>usb0: USB revision 1.0
>uhub0: VIA UHCI root hub, class 9/0, rev 1.00/1.00, addr
>uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removeable, self powered
>pci0: <old, non-VGA display device> at device 20.3 (no driver attached)
>orm0: <ISA option ROM> at iomem 0xc0000-0xc7fff on isa0
>pmtimer0 on isa0
>atkbdc0: <Keyboard controller (i8042)> at port 0x64, 0x60 on isa0
>atkbd0: <AT Keyboard> irq 1 on atkbdc0
>kbd0 at atkbd0
>fdc0: <Enhanced floppy controller> at port 0x3f0-0x3f5 irq 6 drq 2 on isa0
>fd0: <1440-KB 3.5" drive> on fdc0 drive 0
>ppc0: <Parallel port> at port 0x378-0x37f irq 7 on isa0
>ppc0: SMC-like chipset (ECP/EPP/PS2/NIBBLE) in COMPATIBLE mode
>ppc0: FIFO with 16/16/8 bytes threshold
>ppbus0: <Parallel port bus> on ppc0
>plip0: <PLIP network interface> on bus ppbus0
>lpt0: <Printer> on ppbus0
>lpt0: Interrupt-driven port
>ppi0: <Parallel I/O> on ppbus0
>sc0: <System console> at flags 0x100 on isa0
>sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
>sio0 at port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 5 flags 0x10 on isa0
>sio0: type 16550A
>sio1 at port 0x2f8-0x2ff irq 3 on isa0
>sio1: type 16550A
>vga: <Generic ISA VGA> at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
>unknown: <PNP0401> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0501> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0700> can't assign resources (port)
>unknown: <PNP0303> can't assign resources (port)
>Timecounter "TSC" frequency 166587415 Hz quality 800
>Timecounters tick every 10.000 msec
>ad0: 3098MB <WDC AC33200L/3343R38> [6296/16/63] at ata0-master UDMA44
>acd0: CDROM <HITACHI CDR-8230/0014> at ata1-master PIO4
>Mounting root from ufs:/dev/ad0s1a
>
>- Raman

Please send:
outout of ifconfig ed0
your file /etc/rc.conf 
David

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