Makros Chandras wrote: > On Monday 20 October 2008 21:57:38 Jan Kiszka wrote: >> Makros Chandras wrote: >>> On Monday 20 October 2008 21:36:58 Jan Kiszka wrote: >>>> Makros Chandras wrote: >>>>> Hello everybody, >>>>> >>>>> I am trying to use rtnet on a toshiba laptop equiped with 8169 ethernet >>>>> controller. This is the output from lspci >>>>> >>>>> 03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8101E >>>>> PCI Express Fast Ethernet controller (rev 01) >>>>> >>>>> As I see,this device is supported by the rtnet. So i compiled the >>>>> driver and when I try to run sbin/rtnet start i get the following >>>>> errors >>>>> >>>>> ioctl: No such device >>>>> ioctl: No such device >>>>> ioctl: No such device >>>>> ioctl: No such device >>>>> ioctl (add): No such device >>>>> ioctl (add): No such device >>>>> ioctl (add): No such device >>>>> vnic0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >>>>> SIOCSIFADDR: No such device >>>>> vnic0: ERROR while getting interface flags: No such device >>>>> SIOCSIFNETMASK: No such device >>>>> Waiting for all slaves...ioctl: No such device >>>>> ioctl: No such device >>>> This vnic0 error might be related to a different issue (udev renaming >>>> vnic0 to something else) - have you tried basic manual setup of rteth0 >>>> and then manual rtping to some other node? And what does the kernel >>>> console reports? >>> I lost you here. What exactly do you mean? ifconfig doesnt show any >>> devices ( except the loopback device). Is there another way to find out >>> if the card was >> ifconfig -a > Nope, nothing >>> recognised? dmesg doesnt show any possitive reports tha the device was >>> recognised. when i load r8169 (kernel driver) i can see some returned >>> pointers and my device works fine but when i load rt_r8169 driver i get >>> nothing. >> rtifconfig -a > Again, no nothing >> If there is no rteth0, then your PCI-ID might not be supported by the >> rt_r8169. In that case, compare the Linux driver and RTnet's, check if >> there is just that ID to be added or some more differences. Using Linux >> git history to track the development of the original driver since the >> port can help here to understand changes. >> >>> As far as i understand, the rt_r8169 is based on linux driver but not >>> connected at all with it so i guess that this drivers simply doesnt work >>> with my card ( damn :( ) >> The driver used to work for at least one card (Klaus' adapter), but had >> some rough edges and was lacking broader testing - hence the >> experimental state. >> >> Jan > > I tried to add my vendor & card id . Seems to do some stuff but unfortunately > it dies with the following error > > region #1 not an MMIO resource, aborting >
So there are some bits missing to implement support for your chip revision. $SOMEONE has to do this... :-] Jan
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