Don't recognizes Realtek 8139

[Jon Noack]

TooManySecrets wrote:
> Hi.

Hi!

> I have a laptop Acer Aspire 1605LC. That machine has a Realtek 8139
> ethernet, recognized by any Linux (with boot option "noapic" and
> "nolapic"), windoze and OpenBSD 3.4 and future 3.5.
> If I install a 5-CURRENT from current.iso, recompile entire system (with
> kernel also, of course), and reboot, the Realtek doesn't appear by "any
> site". If I execute a "pciconf -lv", the Realtek is like doesn't
> existed; doesn't appear.

You disable APIC for Linux, but you didn't mention disabling it for FreeBSD.

Type this at the boot prompt followed by 'boot':
set hint.apic.0.disabled=1

If that works, comment out the apic line in your kernel config file and 
rebuild.  Alternatively, you may just put the above line in 
/boot/loader.conf.

If that still doesn't work, try safe mode from the boot loader and 
report back.

> I'm relative newbie, and I don't understand why a *BSD like OpenBSD
> recognice the pci of Realtek, and FreeBSD doesn't.

As far as I am aware, OpenBSD does not have ACPI support.  FreeBSD 
should behave more like OpenBSD in safe mode, because safe mode turns 
off ACPI support.

Hope something in the above helps,
Jon