Realtek 8139 + Acer Laptop

[Reinhard Speyerer]

>>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:51:51 -0600 (MDT), "imp" == "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:

  imp> Hmmm, here's part of my dmesg:

  imp> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem
  imp> 0xfc006800-0xfc0068ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 rl0:
  imp> Ethernet address: 08:00:74:50:00:10 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
  imp> rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0:
  imp> 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

  imp> works great.  what does dmesg say?

Hi Warner,

this seems to be an Acer Aspire-specific problem.  I tried to boot
FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE from the install CD on an Acer Aspire 1603LC and
didn't see a rl0 device either.  A verbose boot shows that the Realtek
8139 which should be at rl0 at pci0:7:0 is not detected when scanning the
PCI bus.  Booting with ACPI disabled doesn't make a difference; rl0 is
still missing.

The full dmesg, pciconf -l and lspci -n output from Knoppix for
comparison is here: http://home.arcor.de/rspeyerer/freebsd/

Do you have any tip (perhaps some special hw.pci... setting in
/boot/loader.conf) I could try to make the Realtek 8139 work?

Regards,
Reinhard