From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Thu Aug 3 12:38:09 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 36A0216A4DD for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:38:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au) Received: from mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au (mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au [211.29.132.194]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7EE2B43D46 for ; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 12:38:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au) Received: from c220-237-183-166.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au (c220-237-183-166.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au [220.237.183.166]) by mail13.syd.optusnet.com.au (8.12.11/8.12.11) with ESMTP id k73Cc4gR028432 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO); Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:38:05 +1000 Received: from c220-237-183-166.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by c220-237-183-166.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id k73Ccl1g027984; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:38:48 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au) Received: (from andrewr@localhost) by c220-237-183-166.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au (8.13.4/8.13.4/Submit) id k73Ccj1T027983; Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:38:45 +1000 (EST) (envelope-from A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au) X-Authentication-Warning: c220-237-183-166.frank1.vic.optusnet.com.au: andrewr set sender to A.Robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au using -f Date: Thu, 3 Aug 2006 22:38:45 +1000 From: Andrew Robinson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20060803123845.GN59927@ms.unimelb.edu.au> References: <20060803120045.C0D5616A655@hub.freebsd.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060803120045.C0D5616A655@hub.freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i Cc: marlon@freemail.gr Subject: Re: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Thu, 03 Aug 2006 12:38:09 -0000 Hi Marlon, This thread may (or may not) prove useful to you: http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011012.html Good luck! Andrew > From: marlon@freemail.gr > Subject: RealTek 8139 not identified in FreeBSD > To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org > Message-ID: <44d1c23354f779.69917338@freemail.gr> > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-7" > > > Hello. > > I have an Acer Aspire 1600 laptop with a RealTek 8139 integrated network card. > The card is not identified at all in neither FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE nor in > FreeBSD 5-STABLE, not even in DragonFlyBSD (which is a fork of FreeBSD 5 IIRC). > "pciconf -lv" does not report back any information on the card at all. > > Linux and Windows however can identify the card as "RealTek 8139 chip type > 'RTL-8100B/8139D' at 0x1800-0x18ff, Memory: EC005000-EC0050FF, IRQ 19". > > Since FreeBSD is a lot better for my computing needs, is there a way I can > get the above card to work correctly (or even work at all) in FreeBSD? > > Thanks in advance. > -- Andrew Robinson Department of Mathematics and Statistics Tel: +61-3-8344-9763 University of Melbourne, VIC 3010 Australia Fax: +61-3-8344-4599 Email: a.robinson@ms.unimelb.edu.au http://www.ms.unimelb.edu.au