Re: Realtek NIC issue

[Sepherosa Ziehau <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Sun, Oct 18, 2009 at 9:12 AM, Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@datasynergy.org> wrote:
>
> i've a laptop with identical hardware, running FreeBSD
> 8-CURRENT-200906 (ie. this one, used to write this mail)
> and the following lines are seen in the driver code
>
> src/sys/pci/if_rl.c
>
> ...
>        if (sc->rl_type == 0) {
>                device_printf(dev, "unknown device ID: %x assuming 8139\n",
>                    rl_did);
>                sc->rl_type = RL_8139;
>                /*
>                 * Read RL_IDR register to get ethernet address as accessing
>                 * EEPROM may not extract correct address.
>                 */
>                for (i = 0; i < ETHER_ADDR_LEN; i++)
>                        eaddr[i] = CSR_READ_1(sc, RL_IDR0 + i);
>        }
> ...
>
> What do you think ?

Thank you for the submission, please cherry-pick:
d9893ddff7cb5a3cadf0051f7b80831951499854
to 2.4 branch and test.

Best Regards,
sephe

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