RTL8139 Carbus Card fails to activate

[Jorn Argelo]

On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 23:49:43 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote
> I sent a request for help on this problem earlier, but with no luck 
> in solving it.  Now that I have some more information about it and a 
> better understanding I hope this problem can be fixed.  I have a 
> 10/100 fast ethernet carbus card that uses the realtek 8139 chipset 
> that I'd like to use with FreeBSD.  I have 5.3-RELEASE installed on 
> a PIII Celeron in a Compaq Presario Laptop.  The card is reconized 
> and the rl driver seems to load, but fails to map the card's memory 
> or i/o ports.  Here is the appropriate kernel messages:
> 
> cbb alloc res fail
> cardbus0: Can't get memory for IO ports
> cbb alloc res fail
> re0: couldn't map ports/memory
> cbb alloc res fail
> rl0: couldn't map ports/memory
> cardbus0: <network, ethernet> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
> cbb0: CardBus card activation failed

Well, if you ask me, your card is simply not supported by the rl or the re 
driver (Correct me if I'm wrong). Or your card is broken. Can you confirm that 
the card is still 100% functional? 

Cheers,

Jorn

> 
> Intrestingly, it looks like two different realtek drivers are trying 
> to access it, re and rl.  Can this cause a problem and is there a 
> way to determine the correct driver for it?  I think rl is the one I 
> need. Here's pciconf -vl for the card:
> 
> none3 at pci2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device   = 'RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter'
>     class    = network
>     subclass = ethernet
> 
> Also, /dev/card0 does not exist, is this a legacy item from 4.x and
> earlier.  If so, then pccardd and pccardc are also no longer needed?
> 
> It seems like somewhere I saw a similar problem with another cardbus
> card and the solution was to set some sysctl like allow_unsupported
> something or another in the loader at boot.
> 
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