[9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[Ishwar Rattan]

I am trying to install Plan 9 on a celeron box with rtl-8139-10BaseT
ether card. The system installs, looks like rtl is detected during
boot but is not available after that. I did not find an entry
in 9fat plan9.ini too. What is the correct incantation plan9.ini
entry of this card (I am assuming that it is supported)?

Thanks in advance,
-ishwar

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[Geoff Collyer]

	ether0=rtl8139

though it should be found automatically.

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[jmk]

ether0=type=rtl8139

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[Geoff Collyer]

Sorry; I always forget "type=" until I look at a real plan9.ini.

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[Richard C Bilson]

> I am trying to install Plan 9 on a celeron box with rtl-8139-10BaseT
> ether card. The system installs, looks like rtl is detected during
> boot but is not available after that. I did not find an entry
> in 9fat plan9.ini too. What is the correct incantation plan9.ini
> entry of this card (I am assuming that it is supported)?

This sounds familliar...

The last time I installed, which was about a year ago, the 8139 was
built in to 9load but not into the actual kernel, producing the
symptoms you describe.  I'd try building a new kernel, making sure that
it has the 8139 driver.

Once I had a proper kernel, I didn't have to do anything to plan9.ini.

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[I RATTAN]

Hello,

I did recompile the kernel but no luck. Is there a trick to
/sys/src/9/pc/pcf file entry for rtl8139, as it stands it reads like:
...
link
	...
	ether8139
	...

does it need the keyword 'pci' after this??

Thanks in advance,

-ishwar


On Thu, 29 Apr 2004, Richard C Bilson wrote:

> > I am trying to install Plan 9 on a celeron box with rtl-8139-10BaseT
> > ether card. The system installs, looks like rtl is detected during
> > boot but is not available after that. I did not find an entry
> > in 9fat plan9.ini too. What is the correct incantation plan9.ini
> > entry of this card (I am assuming that it is supported)?
>
> This sounds familliar...
>
> The last time I installed, which was about a year ago, the 8139 was
> built in to 9load but not into the actual kernel, producing the
> symptoms you describe.  I'd try building a new kernel, making sure that
> it has the 8139 driver.
>
> Once I had a proper kernel, I didn't have to do anything to plan9.ini.
>

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[Russ Cox]

What does the "pci" command say when you run it?

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[Ishwar Rattan]

output of pci command

-ishwar
--
term% pci
0.0.0:	06.00.00  8086/7190  0
0.1.0:  06.04.00  8086/7191  0
0.11.0: 03.00.00  5333/8811  11  0:e6000000  8368808
0.15.0: 02.00.00  10ec/8139  10  0:0000d401 256 1:e6800000 256
0.19.0: 01.80.00  1103/0004  11  0:0000d801 16 1:0000dc01 16 4:0000e001 256
0.19.1: 01.80.00  1103/0004  11  0:0000e401 16 1:0000e801 16 4:0000ec01 256
0.7.0:  06.01.00  8086/7110  0
0.7.1:  01.01.80  8086/7111  0   4:0000f001 16
0.7.2:  0c.03.00  8086/7112  5   4:0000d001 32
0.7.3:  06.80.00  8086/7113  0
--
A
On Sat, 1 May 2004, Russ Cox wrote:

> What does the "pci" command say when you run it?
>

Re: [9fans] Rtl8139 NIC detection..

[jmk]

that all looks fine.
a recent change to the driver was to time out on the initial
hardware reset. this was due to some systems coming up with the
chip in deep sleep mode and the reset code would loop forever
(as an aside i have the code to take chips out of sleep mode if
necessary, but it's not distributed yet).
perhaps the timout is too short. put some prints in here


static int
rtl8139reset(Ctlr* ctlr)
{
	int timeo;

	/*
	 * Soft reset the controller.
	 */
	csr8w(ctlr, Cr, Rst);
	for(timeo = 0; timeo < 1000; timeo++){
		if(!(csr8r(ctlr, Cr) & Rst))
			return 0;
		delay(1);
	}

	return -1;
}

and try it.

--jim

On Sat May  1 11:40:42 EDT 2004, ishwar@pali.cps.cmich.edu wrote:
> output of pci command
>
> -ishwar
> --
> term% pci
> 0.0.0:	06.00.00  8086/7190  0
> 0.1.0:  06.04.00  8086/7191  0
> 0.11.0: 03.00.00  5333/8811  11  0:e6000000  8368808
> 0.15.0: 02.00.00  10ec/8139  10  0:0000d401 256 1:e6800000 256
> 0.19.0: 01.80.00  1103/0004  11  0:0000d801 16 1:0000dc01 16 4:0000e001 256
> 0.19.1: 01.80.00  1103/0004  11  0:0000e401 16 1:0000e801 16 4:0000ec01 256
> 0.7.0:  06.01.00  8086/7110  0
> 0.7.1:  01.01.80  8086/7111  0   4:0000f001 16
> 0.7.2:  0c.03.00  8086/7112  5   4:0000d001 32
> 0.7.3:  06.80.00  8086/7113  0
> --
> A
> On Sat, 1 May 2004, Russ Cox wrote:
>
> > What does the "pci" command say when you run it?
> >