Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 22:44:04 -0400 From: "Matthew Emmerton" <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> To: "Don Tyson" <tyson@stanfordalumni.org> Cc: "James Housley" <jim@thehousleys.net>, "shailesh sheoran" <shailesh@ece.ubc.ca>, "FreeBSD-Questions" <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG>, <leckert@neo.rr.com> Subject: Re: d-link 530TX + cards still dysfunctional Message-ID: <004c01c0f869$b56a48f0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> References: <Pine.GSO.4.33.0106181239520.12268-100000@shannon.ece.ubc.ca> <3B2E5FDB.B0EF367D@thehousleys.net> <002501c0f846$00efab40$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> <200106190127.SAA03845@swan.mail.pas.earthlink.net>
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> > > > hi, > > > > i am trying to setup 2 dlink dfe530tx+ cards on my PIII > > > > 750MHz freebsd 4.3 Release system. > > > > despite all efforts I still can't get them working. i have > > > > D-Link 530TX+ and 538TX cards are not supported in 4.3-RELEASE. Patches > > supporting these cards have been sent to the rl driver maintainer by > > multiple contributors (directly and via the FreeBSD PR mechanism) over the > > past few months, and so far only the 530TX+ is supported in -CURRENT. > > > > -- > > Matt Emmerton > > > I'm not sure I'm understanding this. I run 4.3-STABLE and have > used a DFE-530TX+ card and the miibus and rl drivers for 8 months > or so now (on previous -STABLE versions, obviously). > > >From my dmesg file: > > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xd400-0xd4ff mem 0xda000000-0xda0000ff irq 9 at device 11.0 on pci0 > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:50:ba:8a:c1:9d > miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0 > rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 > rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > Is this the same card you're talking about? Yes. Notice, however, that's its only being detected as a "Realtek 8139". It all depends on the revision of your 530TX+. Early revisions of the 530TX+ used RealTek's PCI vendor/device IDs, which is why your card is detected as a generic RealTek card. Later revisions used D-Link specific vendor/device IDs, and since the rl driver doesn't check for these (at least not in -STABLE), the card doesn't get detected. (According to another poster on this thread, Rev A/B/C cards exhibit the former behaviour, and Rev D cards exhibit the latter behaviour, as do the 538TX, which are just 530TX+ with WOL support.) Perhaps "not recognized" is a better term to use than "not supported". -- Matt Emmerton To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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