problem with rl network card

Warner Losh imp at bsdimp.com
Thu Feb 15 21:13:12 UTC 2007


> I have photos.
> This is the link http://free.bsd-bg.net/NIC/
> Definitly the chip is RTL8139D.
> 
> Is there functional driver for it or not?

I think that it might be wise for me to snag these pictures and mirror
them somewhere.  The download time is very very slow.  I chose the
smallest image and it is taking a very long time.

Warner


> Toli
> 
> 2007/2/15, Anatoli Marinov <anatoli.marinov at gmail.com>:
> >
> > I am going to prepare high resolution photos and will post links there
> >
> > 2007/2/14, Warner Losh <imp at bsdimp.com>:
> > >
> > > From: Oliver Fromme <olli at lurza.secnetix.de>
> > > Subject: Re: problem with rl network card
> > > Date: Wed, 14 Feb 2007 22:14:54 +0100 (CET)
> > >
> > > > Anatoli Marinov wrote:
> > > >  > Unfortunately the patch with simple new code for vendor in .h file
> > > didnt
> > > >  > work. See the attached file. It is verbose dmesg after booting.
> > > >
> > > > Thanks.  These are the important lines:
> > > >
> > > >  > pci2: child re0 requested type 4 for rid 0x10, but the BAR says it
> > > is an memio
> > > >  > re0: couldn't map ports/memory
> > > >  > pci2: child rl0 requested type 4 for rid 0x10, but the BAR says it
> > > is an memio
> > > >  > rl0: couldn't map ports/memory
> > > >
> > > > Uhm, strange, why do both re and rl try to attach?  It's
> > > > clearly not an re device.  Did you make any other changes
> > > > to the source code, beside the one I told you?  Something
> > > > seems to be confused there in the drivers.
> > >
> > > re and rl have attach code that allocates resources and talks to the
> > > card to see what revision the card is.  That's why he's seeing thsoe
> > > lines.
> > >
> > > > However, it seems that the driver cannot alloacte the PCI
> > > > resources correctly.
> > >
> > > This likely means that this card isn't a realtek interface.
> > >
> > > What would be nice is to know what the number of the chip on the NIC
> > > card is.  And its maker.  That would help us a lot to know which
> > > drivers to recommend.
> > >
> > > Warner
> > >
> >
> >


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