DragonFly kernel List (threaded) for 2006-12
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Re: ifconfig on re0 panics Toshiba Satellite M115-S3094 with RealTek 8101E chipset
On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:52:43PM -0500, Joe Talbott wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> > The shifted MAC address is a clear sign of problems. It sounds
> > like the RE driver is not accessing the RE hardware's EEPROM
> > correctly. That could also account for the parity error NMI,
> > since PCI bus accesses are parity checked. It sounds like the
> > driver is not properly recognizing the device.
> >
> > Here's a question... I assume the Laptop has a CDROM drive. If
> > you boot a FreeBSD CD.. one of the newer ones that can give you
> > a live shell prompt without having to install FreeBSD, does FreeBSD
> > recognize the RE device and can you ifconfig it up? Is the MAC
> > address shifted?
> >
>
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE doesn't recognize the re(4) device. A snapshot of
> FreeBSD 7-CURRENT doesn't finish booting, it looks like it hangs in
> the video probe or there abouts.
>
> FreeBSD has the 8101E in their rl(4) driver.
This is wrong. The FreeBSD driver at realtek.com.tw was for rl(4).
Joe
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