RealTek Nic Chip

Greg 'groggy' Lehey grog at FreeBSD.org
Thu Sep 25 19:18:29 PDT 2003


On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:07:43 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote:
> Howdy,
> Great OS! Smooth as silk! Extremely fast and responsive.
>
> Have question though. I had to put a D-Link DFE-530TX PCI card in one of
> the PCI slots in the system that the OS was installed on because the
> motherboard (SHUTTLE FN41) has an integrated RealTek 8201BL NIC that was
> not responding during installation. I was wondering if there is any way to
> get the chip to function?
>
> When I boot and look at the output of dmesg I note the following:
> rl0: <D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem
> 0xee000000-0xee0000ff irq 11 at device 6.0 pci1

Heh.  That's a Realtek card.  

> Any ideas on whether I can get the on-board NIC to work?

Well, the first thing to do is to look at the output from ifconfig and
pciconf -vl.

Greg
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