My network card is not detected.

[Sepherosa Ziehau]

On Jan 29, 2008 6:21 PM, Sdävtaker <sdavtaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> Sepherosa Ziehau escribió:
>
> > On Jan 28, 2008 10:07 PM, Sdävtaker <sdavtaker at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Im posting this here just to keep the question/answer in archive,
> >> someone will probably have similar problem.
> >> It is an extract of the DragonFly chat channel today earlier.
> >>
> >>         <Sdav_> hello, i just bought a realtek 8139 card but it is not
> >> detected (it was not detected with FBSD neither, because the vendor id
> >> was not recognized) where should i add this vendor id to use rl driver
> >> on it? same place than FBSD? thanks for any data.
> >>         <swildner>      Sdav_: what are the ids?
> >>         <Sdav_> none0 at pci0:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x00000000
> >> chip=0x81391904 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
> >> class = network
> >> subclass = ethernet    // extracted from pciconf line command
> >>         <swildner>      yea that's not in if_rl.c
> >>         <swildner>      it's not supported yet.. the id is not in if_rl.c
> >>         <Sdav_> i had another rl8139 before that worked, but this one is not working.
> >>         <swildner>      Sdav_: *here was an url, i will just pasted the code here:
> >>
> >>
> >> Index: if_rl.c
> >> ===================================================================
> >> RCS file: /home/dcvs/src/sys/dev/netif/rl/if_rl.c,v
> >> retrieving revision 1.36
> >> diff -u -r1.36 if_rl.c
> >> --- if_rl.c     26 Jun 2007 07:47:28 -0000      1.36
> >> +++ if_rl.c     28 Jan 2008 13:22:51 -0000
> >> @@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
> >>                 "Corega FEtherII CB-TXD" },
> >>         { PCI_VENDOR_PLANEX, PCI_PRODUCT_PLANEX_FNW_3800_TX,
> >>                 "Planex FNW-3800-TX" },
> >> +       { 0x1904, 0x8139, "Hangzhou Silan RTL8139D" },
> >>
> >
> > This may be the "Rsltek 8139D" (I am not wrong on the name ;) or
> > something similar to Silan's 92301?  It's quite different from
> > Realtek's 8139.  You can first try your luck with rl(4).  If it did
> > not work, I could do a quick "slash" porting of a fbsd4 driver (the
> > fbsd4 driver was published by Silan in public domain?) or do you want
> > to port that driver :)?
> >
> > Best Regards,
> > sephe
> >
> >
> I found a little inscription in the board saying "8139d" so, i guess i
> will have to use the new driver.
> I doubt about been able to port a driver by myself, im not there yet,
> but if you can point me to some documentation i will try :-)
> Thanks for the info.

Sascha has made very good progress to make the fbsd4 driver working,
please stay tuned :)

Best Regards,
sephe

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