Da Rock wrote:
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 11:08 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Da Rock wrote:
On Fri, 2008-04-18 at 10:11 +0300, Manolis Kiagias wrote:
Da Rock wrote:
Hey, hey... I made a boo boo and ordered a unit with this nic onboard
(truthfully, I never thought I'd have any trouble since I had done this
before). Loaded 7 and couldn't find the nic. A little investigation
found that the nic was the above, and a little further found that there
was no support for it in the hcl's.
Now I do find it hard to believe there is no way around this- I found a
driver for FBSD4.5-6, is there one for 6.2 or higher? Or will this one
work? Anyone know how to install it?
The driver is only a c and a h file- Makefile is an empty file, and the
readme tells me to rebuild the kernel after removing rl and re in the
conf. Then I build the driver, and kldload it. Any idea why I'd have to
rebuild the kernel?
Cheers guys
I've seen this driver too (I've investigated for a friend who bought a
similar motherboard that otherwise works with 7). The readme describes
two "methods" of installation but the first one simply does not apply
(there is no modules directory in the download). I have not tried the
second method (looks reasonable though). Removing the rl and re from the
kernel will remove the built-in support (it could conflict with the new
driver) and create a module for the new driver. Note that you are also
asked to replace the files in the FreeBSD src directories. In fact it
is better to build as a module - building it into the kernel may well
leave you with an unbootable kernel if it is not compatible.
As I said, I have not done this (my friend will be running Linux on this
box) but as more and more recent mobos seem to use this NIC - and I may
be buying one- if you are willing to give it a try, I will be interested
in the results.
Well I just tried it- I put this out there for some feedback mainly- the
kernel rebuild is to remove the old rl and re drivers completely, and
the build for the driver is for a module.
Unfortunately the result is a failure: compatibility issues or some sort
(argument warnings, not enough args, invalid variables and functions).
My question is will I find something to work for 7? If not, will it work
on 6.2 or 6.3 (it only says 6 in the readme's)?
I hope realtek releases a driver for 7. I would not want to go back to
6.X for this.
I have a 6.3 server, and can give it a try - as far as compiling the
module, not actually using it, I don't have the NIC.
I will post the results later today.
Ok, I have good news and bad news.
Good news: the driver compiles under 6.2.
Bad news: it doesn't work.
I tried a new cable, dhcp, manual config- could not get it to
communicate. First sign was that it couldn't get an ip from dhcp. Then I
tried pinging dns name, then local address- NG. When I tried the cable
the NIC led didn't come back on, and the indication leds on the switch
were slowly blinking. Something is seriously wrong...
Any ideas about this guys?
Maybe it gets stuck in the auto-negotiation phase, trying to determine
link speed?
Give it a bit of manual help, something like:
ifconfig rl0 inet 192.168.0.25 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100baseTX
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