James,

> -----Original Message-----
> From: netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org
> [mailto:netbsd-help-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of James K. Lowden
> Sent: Saturday, November 16, 2002 8:30 PM
> To: netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: Realtek NIC
>
>
> And the text changes colors partway through the bootup, right?

yup. only the green stuff shows up in the "dmesg"

>
> The early messages are written to the console by the kernel and captured
> in the dmesg file (which you can use "dmesg" to read cf. "man dmesg").
>
> The later messages are written to the console by the applications and
> daemons and are captured in the system log.  Try "more /var/log/messages".
>
that's different. It still don't say anything about a nic card but I think
I'm getting warmer.

>
> See, in NetBSD, if it's not logged it didn't happen. ;)
>
Then i guess it didn't happen. lol.

> > You guys have all the luck. I wish mine said that. :-)
>
> So do I.
>

> Your sound card could cover it.  It's really and ISA card?  Have you got a
> clay tablet printer, too?  :-)

No, I use a hammer and chisel for that. :-)

> Yanking the sound card will work.  If you're going to fool with the BIOS,
> instead of disabling sound, there should be a way to reserve IRQs for ISA
> devices.

My sound card is built into the mother board. I have a Soyo Dragon
KT333/Ultra. It has a lot of built in crap like the sound, nic, raid, usb,
ports, dishwasher...that's why i would have to disable sound from the bios.

>
> > sb0 at isa0 port 0x220-0x237 irq 5 drq 1 drq2 5: dsp v4.13
>
> Your sound card is using IRQ 5.  If you reserve that, PCI won't claim it.
> The built-in Ethernet device surely lives on the PCI bus.  The reason I
> suspect the conflict matters is that I'd expect at least a "found
> something here I don't recognize" message.  And ("man 4 rtk") it should
> work.

I'll try that.

> Also, you might have PNP enabled in the BIOS.  AFAIK, it should be
> disabled with NetBSD.
>
yes it's enabled. but that's for my windows installation. i suppose i can
change that for when i boot NetBSD

> I've seen many uncomplimentary remarks about Realtek's hardware, both on
> this list and in the driver source code.  But folks get 'em to work
> anyhow.  I wouldn't give up on it until your dmesg tells us something
> about it.  OTOH, anything supported by ex(4) will make your day.
>
ex(4) ?

> HTH.
me too. :-)
-Fernando