On Friday 12 August 2005 07:10 pm, Alastair Pharo wrote:
> Hi there,
>
> I thought I'd just say first of all, that I've been using NetBSD on an
> ff for quite some years now, and I've always found if to be an
> excellent system.  I all the time I've been using it, this is the very
> first time I have needed to ask for help explicitly, rather than just
> silently trawling the internet for hints and the like.
>
> Here is my problem:  I am running a compaq nx9005 laptop with NetBSD
> 2.0.2.  I have a DSE Wireless LAN PCMCIA Card, model XH6821, which I
> believe uses a Realtek 8139 chipset.  The specifications are here:
>
> http://www.dse.co.nz/isroot/dse/support/XH6821_datasheet.pdf
>
> My understanding was that the rtk driver should support this card.
> However, when I plug the card in, I only get the following on the
> console:
>
> Realtek, Rtl8139,  Realtek Semiconductor product 0x8180 (ethernet
> network, revision 0x20) at cardbus1 dev 0 function 0 not configured
>
> The following is the dmesg I get when I use the GENERIC kernel:
>
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> So in the end, I get the same thing (plus a lot of acpi stuff, which
> I'm not worried about right now).  What preplexes me is that NetBSD
> seems to pick up the card fine, and is aware that its an RTL8139, but
> doesn't configure it for whatever reason.  Does anyone know how I can
> fix this problem?  Any suggestions at this stage would be welcomed.  I
> know the card works on this computer, because I have a Windows XP
> partition on the laptop and it has no problems there.  Am I perhaps
> mistaken in thinking that this card is supported by NetBSD?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> -Alastair

The RTL8139 is a wired ethernet controller. The product id of 0x8180 also 
suggests that it is a RTL8180 (a wireless controller). It will be supported 
in 3.0. (You can try 3.0_BETA already.)

	Jonathan Kollasch