How to make realtek 8139 work ?

I'm not sure if you should have a /dev/rtls0, but you should have one /dev/rtls if this driver is functioning properly. I suppose you already tried;

ifconfig rtls0 plumb

Apart from that i have no clue on the exact cause of this problem, but i got two alternatives. You could try and download a driver from:

http://www.realtek.com.tw/

and use that one, then there is an other driver available from:

http://homepage2.nifty.com/mrym3/taiyodo/eng/

.. which also should do the trick..

7/M.

mAbrante at 2007-7-7 2:33:51 >

I downloaded and instaleed the realtek driver from the realtek website, but it didn't make any difference.

The output of installer:

+ cp rtls //kernel/drv/rtls

+ cp rtls.conf //kernel/drv/rtls.conf

+ chmod 755 //kernel/drv/rtls

+ chown root:sys //kernel/drv/rtls

+ grep ^rtls\> /etc/name_to_major

+ rem_drv -b / rtls

+ add_drv -v -i "pci1186,1301" "pci10ec,8139" "pci1113,1211" rtls

exit status = 0

devfsadm: driver failed to attach: rtls

exit status = 1

Warning: Driver (rtls) successfully added to system but failed to attach

Driver (rtls) installed.

+ exit 0

See the scanpci -v

http://www.claudius.com.br/resources/claudio/scanpci-v.txt

prtconf -D

http://www.claudius.com.br/resources/claudio/prtconf-D.txt

prtconf -pv

http://www.claudius.com.br/resources/claudio/prtconf-pv.txt

Claudio4J at 2007-7-7 2:33:51 >

Hmm, so scanpci finds the device:

pci bus 0x0008 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8139

Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8139/8139C/8139C+

CardVendor 0x10bd card 0x0428 (Surecom Technology, Card unknown)

STATUS0x0290 COMMAND 0x0000

CLASS0x02 0x00 0x00 REVISION 0x10

BIST0x00 HEADER 0x00 LATENCY 0x00 CACHE 0x00

BASE00xffffff01 addr 0xffffff00 I/O

BASE10xfffffe00 addr 0xfffffe00 MEM

MAX_LAT0x40 MIN_GNT 0x20 INT_PIN 0x01 INT_LINE 0xff

But the Solaris kernel hasn't recognized it, there is no "pci10ec,8139" device

in the prtconf -pv device tree. So the root cause of this problem is that the

Solaris kernel does not find this PCMCIA NIC device. Without a device tree

node for the "pci10ec,8139" device no Solaris driver will be able to find

that realtek nic.

Did you produce these prtconf outputs on Solaris Express? Which release?

Do you have the cardbus device driver installed? (AFAIK the latest Solaris

Express release now includes the updated cardbus driver)

http://www.opensolaris.org/os/community/laptop/wireless/cardbus/

JuergenKeil at 2007-7-7 2:33:51 >

Wow, cardbus did the job very well

lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232 index 1

inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000

rtls0: flags=1000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4> mtu 1500 index 2

inet 192.168.1.11 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255

See the boot message:

http://weblogs.java.net/blog/claudio/archive/nic8139.

So, I thought that, if scanpci detected realtek 8139, everything was ok, from the driver configuration.

I can issue a "ping smaug" and it is alive and kicking.

The only problem, is the router IP cannot be reached. But this is other topic.

Thank you all for your time and support.

Viva Solaris

Claudio4J at 2007-7-7 2:33:51 >