RTL8139 Carbus Card fails to activate

[Loren M. Lang]

On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 09:51:09PM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> On Thu, 9 Dec 2004 06:58:21 -0800, Loren M. Lang wrote
> > On Thu, Dec 09, 2004 at 10:05:30AM +0100, Jorn Argelo wrote:
> > > 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?
> > 
> > A few months ago I tried getting this card working and couldn't, before
> > then and after then it's been used in a linux laptop just fine with the
> > rtl8139 and 8130too drivers.  Now I just traded it with the linux laptop
> > again and it still doesn't work with freebsd.
> 
> I don't think that the Linux and FreeBSD drivers for the realtek cards are 
> quite the same :) After all, they have to talk to different kernels. So I 
> still think that your card is simply not supported by the drivers FreeBSD 
> provides.
> 

I wasn't saying that since Linux supports it, FreeBSD should too, but
I was just confirming that the card is 100% functional.  The annoying
part is that they're both open source oses, but I can't just copy code
or model it after the other without violating a license or two.  If I
didn't have that to worry about, I could probably get the card to work
pretty easily.

> > 
> > > 
> > > 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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I sense much NT in you.
NT leads to Bluescreen.
Bluescreen leads to downtime.
Downtime leads to suffering.
NT is the path to the darkside.
Powerful Unix is.

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