RealTek Nic Chip

[Greg 'groggy' Lehey]

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Horrible reply mangling.  I won't reply to any more messages mangled
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On Friday, 26 September 2003 at 13:08:46 -0700, Tony A. Fields wrote:
> At 02:44 PM 9/26/03 -0400, you wrote:
>> Sent: Friday, September 26, 2003 12:05 PM
>>> At 11:49 AM 9/26/03 +0930, you wrote:
>>>> On Thursday, 25 September 2003 at 15:07:43 -0700, Tony A, Fields wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> 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.   <<<<<<<<< DFE-530TX uses RealTek
>>>> Driver >>>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> 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.
>>>
>>> Check the PC's bio's to insure you have the onboard Nic enabled.
>>> Since you can not see the onboard Nic in the boot log as an unknown
>>> device the motherboard bios must have the Nic disabled.
>>
>> Please note that I have looked at the output from ifconfig. Also
>> note that the driver recognizes that the DFE-530TX uses the RealTek
>> 8139 chip.
>>
>> Any other suggestions on how to get the RealTek 8201BL chip to work?

Well, it would be good to report on what I suggested above.

> Oh, I forgot to mention that even though the on-board nic is enabled what I
> did see in the boot log as unknown was something like "if_fwe0 ethernet
> over firewire" ??? Mystery to me.

What's the mystery?  That's Ethernet over firewire, but you should
know that already.

> Also ifconfig shows
>
> fwe0: flags = 8802 <BROADCAST, SIMPLEX, MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>          ether xx:xx:xx:xx:xx:xx
>          ch 1 dma -1
>
> where xx is the physical mac address. ????

What's the problem?

Greg
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