hello,

i 'm trying *BSD's OS and the only who accepts my realtek8139 ethernet card is openBSD.

So I'm trying to locate the rl driver in the source-files in order to copy it into freeBSD files.

my problem is that i dont know what file to check.

thanks for your suggestions.

What version of FreeBSD are you running? I've used 3 or 4 realtek8139 cards, and they've all worked just fine. Matter of fact, my Gigabyte motherboard on my desktop system is running that chipset integrated on the motherboard, and it uses the rl driver just fine. I've successfully run it under FreeBSD 5.1, 5.2, 5.2.1, and 5-CURRENT, last updated June 2.

Even if you did find the driver for that card in OpenBSD, it probably wouldn't compile or work under FreeBSD. The codebases are just different enough between Free/Open/Net/BSD flavors that you can't intermingle kernel or system-level components.

Have a look at /usr/src/sys/dev/pci/if_rl_pci.c, but like Alex said a) rl cards should work fine in FreeBSD, so perhaps you have a different problem and b) simply ripping the code from OpenBSD is highly unlikely to work without major modification. That card is popular enough that I simply refuse to believe that it's unsupported by FreeBSD.

thanks for your answers guys,

my problem is a :"rl couldnt map ports/memory" and i tried to put the card at different places on my motherboard.

so, i'm going to try to copy/compile the openBSD driver, maybe it will work.

Try turning off "Plug and Play OS" in your BIOS. Sometimes, this allows the card to be recognized.

What kind of motherboard/system do you have? Also, what other cards do you have in your system? All I know is that my rl card works just fine, so it's probably some kind of conflict with some other hardware. If all else fails, remove all other PCI cards, disable all of your integrated devices in the BIOS. Then, reboot, and see if it still says that it cannot map ports/memory.

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