Re: Realtek NIC issue

[Saifi Khan <saifi.khan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wed, 21 Oct 2009, Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:

> 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
> 

Thank you Sephe, the Realtek NIC is working fine now.

i could successfully run some traffic through ping, pkg_radd.


thanks
Saifi.