Re: Realtek 8201 driver on FreeBSD?

[Pete Slagle]

Mass Milan wrote:

I actually have an ASUS P5RD1-VM, but I am unable to figure out how to 
get the NIC working.
With Linux, it is pretty straightforward to make it working, but with 
FreeBSD it is not the same game.


I don't know if you have solved the problem you posted on the web.
If it is the case, I would appreciate your help.


Sorry, but I can't help. I got diverted to more rewarding projects and 
never got the NIC working. I gave that particular mobo to someone else.




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Realtek 8201 driver?

[Pete Slagle]

Short version:

Does anyone have an ASUS P5RD1-VM on-board NIC or the Realtek 8201 chip 
working with 6-stable?  If so, which driver did you use?



Details:

I needed another quick and cheap box, so the other day I bought a ASUS 
P5RD1-VM motherboard on sale for almost nothing and booted up the 
6.0-RELEASE CD. (I'll upgrade it to stable when I get the network 
interface working.)


There is a built-in NIC which is apparently a Realtek RTL8201CL PHY, 
although `pciconf -lv` says Acer Labs perpetrated it. In either case, 
it's not listed on the hardware compatibility list and it isn't found at 
boot time by a GENERIC kernel:


   pci0: network, ethernet at 27.0 (no driver attached)

The link light is on and the BIOS assigns it an IRQ so it does seem to 
be enabled and working at the firmware level.


I googled around for quite awhile and found a lot of questions about the 
8201, but no answers and no indication that there is a FreeBSD driver 
for it.


So, does anyone have any pointers about which, if any, driver might work 
with this motherboard's built-in ethernet interface?






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