Realtek 8139 + Acer Laptop

[M. Warner Losh]

In message: <200310122335.BAA02357.niftpqrx at arcor.de>
            Reinhard Speyerer <rspmn at arcor.de> writes:
: >>> On Thu, 25 Sep 2003 19:51:51 -0600 (MDT), "imp" == "M. Warner Losh" <imp at bsdimp.com> wrote:
: 
:   imp> Hmmm, here's part of my dmesg:
: 
:   imp> rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x1400-0x14ff mem
:   imp> 0xfc006800-0xfc0068ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0 rl0:
:   imp> Ethernet address: 08:00:74:50:00:10 miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
:   imp> rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0 rlphy0:
:   imp> 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
: 
:   imp> works great.  what does dmesg say?
: 
: Hi Warner,
: 
: this seems to be an Acer Aspire-specific problem.  I tried to boot
: FreeBSD 5.1-RELEASE from the install CD on an Acer Aspire 1603LC and
: didn't see a rl0 device either.  A verbose boot shows that the Realtek
: 8139 which should be at rl0 at pci0:7:0 is not detected when scanning the
: PCI bus.  Booting with ACPI disabled doesn't make a difference; rl0 is
: still missing.
: 
: The full dmesg, pciconf -l and lspci -n output from Knoppix for
: comparison is here: http://home.arcor.de/rspeyerer/freebsd/
: 
: Do you have any tip (perhaps some special hw.pci... setting in
: /boot/loader.conf) I could try to make the Realtek 8139 work?

I don't suppose there's a bios option to turn off the network is
there?  If the deivce isn't there at all in the pci scan, the problem
isn't with the rl driver.  It is either that the chip is off and not
responding, or there's some subtle bug in the pci scanning code.

Warner