Abit F-190HD Onboard rlt8169 Ethernet Controller

From: Ciaran McCreesh
Date: Mon Oct 29 2007 - 02:39:47 EST


The Abit Fatal1ty F-190HD motherboard has a Realtek rlt8169 gigabit
ethernet controller onboard. It shows up in lspci as:

02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Unknown device 0001:8168 (rev 01)
Subsystem: ABIT Computer Corp. Unknown device 2410
Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 16
I/O ports at ee00 [size=256]
Memory at fdeff000 (64-bit, non-prefetchable) [size=4K]
[virtual] Expansion ROM at fdd00000 [disabled] [size=128K]
Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 2
Capabilities: [48] Vital Product Data
Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
Queue=0/1 Enable-
Capabilities: [60] Express Endpoint, MSI 00
Capabilities: [84] Vendor Specific Information
Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
Capabilities: [12c] Virtual Channel
Capabilities: [148] Device Serial Number 81-ec-10-00-00-00-4f-04
Capabilities: [154] Power Budgeting

It is not recognised by 2.6.24-rc1. I'm guessing it's because the
vendor ID is 0001 rather than something sensible. I patched the kernel
as follows:

--- drivers/net/r8169.c.orig 2007-10-29 05:37:02.000000000 +0000
+++ drivers/net/r8169.c 2007-10-29 05:54:30.000000000 +0000
@@ -165,6 +165,7 @@
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8136), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8167), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_1 },
+ { PCI_DEVICE(PCI_ANY_ID, 0x8168), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_2 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_REALTEK, 0x8169), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_DLINK, 0x4300), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },
{ PCI_DEVICE(PCI_VENDOR_ID_AT, 0xc107), 0, 0, RTL_CFG_0 },

This was enough to get the device recognised and operational. (Only
RTL_CFG_2 works, I have no idea why.) Is this the correct approach?

--
Ciaran McCreesh
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