Problem with Realtek 8139C and 8139D NIC in 5.4

[Ted Mittelstaedt]

The Realtek 8139 cards are a pretty cheap chipset that many others
have had problems with.  Try a different card from a different
manufacturer.

It is probably some BIOS setting in your motherboard. You might try
setting
the board to non-pnp OS to allow the board to assign resources.

Ted

> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org
> [mailto:owner-freebsd-questions at freebsd.org]On Behalf Of Abrie Lintvelt
> Sent: Saturday, May 21, 2005 2:44 AM
> To: freebsd-questions
> Subject: Problem with Realtek 8139C and 8139D NIC in 5.4
>
>
> Hiya Guys
>
> I've recently started "playing" with FreeBSD.  I use it at
> home on a pc
> for our ADSL connection, just for that added security.
> Worked fine with 5.2, except that my WiFi connection was a
> little buggy,
> so I decided to upgrade to 5.4
>
> After installing 5.4, my  ed(4) card stopped working.  It's
> quite an old
> card, so I decided to upgrade it as well.
> Got myself a new RTL8139D card, and installed it only to keep getting
> the error that it "couldn't map ports/memory".  The system has 2 other
> NICs in in as well,
> A RTL8139A, and a Gigabyte Super 108 NIC using the ath(4) driver.
> Uninstalled the other Realtek Card, same problem.  Uninstalled
> the WiFi,
> same problem,
> Uninstall ALL other NICs in the system and only leave in the 8139D,
> problem still persists.
>
> Over to plan B, get another NIC from another unused PC.  This
> time it's
> an 8139C.  Same problem still. I'm really out of options.
> Any way to resolve this issue?
>
> I'm kinda desperate to get my system up and running again.
>
> System Specs:
> AMD Duron 700
> Gigabyte GA-7IX Motherboard (quite old I know, but the PC just stood
> there doing nothing :)
> 3dfx Voodoo Banshee AGP Display (see M/B note)
> RTL8139A NIC (dunno where I got this one)
> RTL8139D NIC
> Gigabyte GN-WPEAG Wifi NIC
> 128MB Ram
> 6GB HDD
>
> Thanx for all the help.
>
> Abrie Linvelt
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