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Date:      Mon, 10 Mar 2003 01:17:08 +0200
From:      Marian Dobre <mari@onix.ro>
To:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   RTL8139 problems on E450
Message-ID:  <3E6BCB74.8030209@onix.ro>

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Hi,

I've installed FreeBSD 5.0-RELEASE sparc64 on a Ultra Enterprise 450 box 
and I have a hard time adding a second ethernet card.
The on board hme0 works just fine but when I tried to install a Realtek 
8139 fast ethernet addapter I get the following error message

Jan 17 21:41:15  kernel: rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 
0x400-0x4ff mem 0x2000-0x20ff irq 1 at device 2.0 on pci2
Jan 17 21:41:15  kernel: rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may 
be unstable in autoselect mode
Jan 17 21:41:15  kernel: rl0: Ethernet address: 00:00:c0:b4:b9:db
Jan 17 21:41:15  kernel: miibus1: <MII bus> on rl0
Jan 17 21:41:15  kernel: rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on 
miibus1
Jan 17 21:41:15  kernel: rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 
100baseTX-FDX, auto
Jan 17 21:41:24  kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout
Jan 17 21:41:45  kernel: rl0: watchdog timeout
Jan 17 21:43:42  last message repeated 5 times

There's nothing wrong with the network cord and I have a link on the 
ethernet switch port. I also changed the NIC with a brand new Realtek 
card and I'm still getting the watchdog timeout error. I forced the mode 
on the card to 100baseTX half and full duplex but that didn't help either.
What am I doing wrong here ? What do I have to do to be able to use PCI 
cards on the E450 box ?


Thanks,

Marian Dobre


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