FreeBSD doesn't recognize onboard RTL8139

Brooks Davis brooks at one-eyed-alien.net
Wed Jun 18 14:45:54 PDT 2003


On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 03:38:30PM -0600, Brett Glass wrote:
> I'm setting up FreeBSD on a little single-board computer with a built-in 
> Realtek 8139 Ethernet controller. The board has a PCI slot, into which 
> I've put a PCI card with another Realtek 8139. However, while FreeBSD 
> recognizes the add-on card, it doesn't recognize the onboard chip.
> 
> Here's a dmesg. I suspect that the line
> 
> pci0: <unknown card> (vendor=0x1078, dev=0x0103) at 18.3
> 
> indicates that the onboard NIC was detected but not recognized. How do I 
> fix this?

Add a new entry to the rl_devs array in sys/pci/if_rl.c.  For testing
you can enter the vendor and dev entries numericly.  Once you verify
that it works, add appropriate #defines to if_rlreg.h and submit a diff.

-- Brooks
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