"no driver attached" for Realtek 8129-based NIC

[Scott Long]

David Wolfskill wrote:
> Ugh.  Looks as if my cut/paste of the console output ran across a lone
> '.' and somewhat truncated the output; worse, the next stuff was
> interpreted as Cc: addresses.  Sorry about that....  :-(
> 
> The console output that was dropped was not relevant to the problem,
> so I'll not bother with it further.
> 
> I will point out that the kernel does still have the "rl" device; it
> also has the "re" device defined.


So rev 1.118 of sys/pci/if_rl.c is what breaks your configuration?  You
can't back that change out, but if you '#if 0' the test that changed in
that rev (checking hwrev for certain values), does it make a difference?
If it does, you and Bill Paul will have to get together and figure out
if the test is correct.  Possibilities include either the test being
wrong, or the re(4) driver needing to be modified to recognise your
card.

Also, the PCI database contained in pciconf is completely separate from
the drivers that are in the kernel.  There is absolutely no connection
between the two.  pciconf works by parsing the PCI config space itself
and matching the data that it finds to entries in it's database.  There
is nothing odd about what you are seeing; there are probably hundreds of
devices that pciconf can identify but have no correspinding driver in
FreeBSD at all.  The same applies to the PCI configuration code in the
kernel.  Parsing the PCI config space is easy and has no bearing on what
drivers may or may not attach to the hardware.

Scott