Re: "no driver attached" for Realtek 8129-based NIC

Ugh.  Looks as if my cut/paste of the console output ran across a lone
'.' and somewhat truncated the output; worse, the next stuff was
interpreted as Cc: addresses.  Sorry about that....  :-(

The console output that was dropped was not relevant to the problem,
so I'll not bother with it further.

I will point out that the kernel does still have the "rl" device; it
also has the "re" device defined.

A copy of the kernel configuration may be found at
http://www.catwhisker.org/~david/FreeBSD/current/FREEBEAST if you'd like
to take a look.

One other thing:  when running -STABLE, it seems that irq 2 is assigned
to the 8129 NIC in question, while under -CURRENT, irq 16 is assigned.
Bit when -CURRENT boots, the console output shows:

ioapic0: intpin 2 -> irq 2 (edge, activehi)
...
ioapic0: intpin 16 -> irq 16 (level, activelo)

I'll freely admit that I don't know much about hardware generally (and
PC hardware specifically), but given that we're talking about running
the same hardware with the same BIOS settings (unless FreeBSD has some
mechanism to change them), the difference between using irq 2 vs. irq 16
would appear to be fairly significant.

But then, seeing:


pcib0: matched entry for 0.9.INTA (source )
pcib0: device is hardwired to IRQ 16
found-> vendor=0x10ec, dev=0x8129, revid=0x00
        bus=0, slot=9, func=0
        class=02-00-00, hdrtype=0x00, mfdev=0
        cmdreg=0x0007, statreg=0x0200, cachelnsz=0 (dwords)
        lattimer=0x20 (960 ns), mingnt=0x20 (8000 ns), maxlat=0x40 (16000 ns)
        intpin=a, irq=16
        map[10]: type 4, range 32, base 0100c400, size  7, enabled
        map[14]: type 1, range 32, base d9000000, size  7, enabled
        map[18]: type 1, range 32, base 01000000, size 24, enabled
        map[1c]: type 1, range 32, base 01000000, size 24, enabled
        map[20]: type 1, range 32, base 01000000, size 24, enabled
        map[24]: type 1, range 32, base 01000000, size 24, enabled

followed a bit later by

pci_describe_device(): no vendor data for c0c21af4
pci0: <network, ethernet> at device 9.0 (no driver attached)

is something I have trouble understanding.

Thanks for any clues,
david
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