Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 17:20:16 -0500 From: "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Godwin Stewart" <gstewart@bonivet.net>, <freebsd-stable@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: 5.3-R and D-Link DFE500TX cards [ corrected ] Message-ID: <001301c51eac$d9e440b0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <002601c51e0e$2c0f41e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <20050301102433.138f2236.gstewart@bonivet.net>
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> On Mon, 28 Feb 2005 22:24:25 -0500, "Matt Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> > wrote: > > > I just installed 5.3-R on a spare machine, which is equipped with a D-Link > > DFE-530TX network card. > > This is a "typical" Digital 21440A-based card which has worked fine fine > > under 4.x before. > > Something misdetected your card, then. The DFE-530TX is via-rhine based > (vr0) - I should know, I have 3 boxen using them :) > > The DFE-530TX+, however, is based on an RTL8139. > > $ dmesg | grep vr0 > vr0: <VIA VT3043 Rhine I 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1080-0x10ff mem 0xf0000000-0xf000007f irq 11 at device 14.0 on pci0 > miibus0: <MII bus> on vr0 > vr0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:df:6f:60 I yanked the card out and noticed it's an older DFE-500TX card (not 530TX) with the DEC 21140 chipset. So I think it's rightly being detected as a 'de' device, but is not working. Anyone out there have any hints/tips/advice? Thanks, -- Matt Emmerton
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