Hi, My computer connects to internet with a TP-Link TD-8616 ADSL modem.
It doesn’t seem to work in Haiku Beta 5. It is not listed in the main hardware menu
of the network application.
Thanks for helping
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The modem is connecting to the computer using a Ethernet cable,right?
Haiku doesn’t need to support your modem specifically,it doesn’t matter what’s connected at the other end of the Ethernet cable,but Haiku needs to support the chip in your computer that powers the Ethernet port.
What do you see in the Network preferences?
Are any network devices shown?
If not,have a look at the Devices application,there you should see the network chip even if Haiku doesn’t have a driver for it.
Please look what it’s called (manufacturer and exact model),then it may be possible to find a reason why it doesn’t work.
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No i think it is a modem connected to usb , unfortunately. Is better to purchase a router and add the data configuration from the isp and connect the ethernet to the computer.
I think that’s the modem in question:
I see a Ethernet port on the picture,but no USB port.
Can you see your network card? The TD-8616 will not show as it’s directly connected to your network.
Also “TD-8616 also includes a web-based GUI“ se if you can access that
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It’s a monoport ADSL router It needs normally a 10/100 MB switch and to be configures to use nat, can work but you needs to enter the administration and configure the parameters for your isp. And the test with your computer It must work.
Hi, first that ADSL modem has no USB. For connecion to computer it has one
ethernet port RJ45.
Some words about the computer:
- Motherboard is ECS 741GX-M with SIS chipset, 2 GB memory.
- CPU is AMD Athlon Barton (32 bits).
- Network chip is Realtek RTL8201CL
- Graphics card is from ATI
I went to >>>APPs >>>Devices and a window similar to network settings was
displayed.
On the left there is a list.
First item is ACPI, it contains “ACPI nodes” and “Microsoft ACPI nodes”,
Then 3 items “Bridge“, “Computer“ and “Mass Storage Controller“ .
The last item “Unclassified Device“ contains “Generic”, “Unknown Device“ (x2),
“Random“ , etc.
All in all there is not much I can do with that. Maybe the Realtek chip
is hidden somewhere. Same for the ATI graphics processor.
Thanks for your help.
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I can’t find any information about driver support for the RTL8201CL chip on FreeBSD or OpenBSD.
The BSD Hardware site doesn’t even find this device:
As Haiku uses network drivers from both the FreeBSD and OpenBSD project,there’s a chance that this specific device isn’t supported here.
Is your Ethernet connection visible in the Network preferences?
Maybe share a screenshot of your Network preferences,that would probably help with seeing what’s wrong.
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Making sure you're not a bot! supported devices
Hi, thanks for your replies.
That Realtek RTL8201CL network chip exists, as a search on google will show.
I learned on google this chip is a “PHYceiver” (don’t know what it is) but there
is no driver because it is integrated to the SIS Southbridge chipset on the
motherboard. That chipset is labelled “SIS964L“ and there is a driver for a
Windows computer, surely you should find one on OpenBSD or FreeBSD.
These Realtek network chips are everywhere to be seen on motherboards.
A technical data document can be found on intenet, a kind of datasheet,
produced by Realtek. I have downloaded it and it could be included in my
next message.
This could be interesting:
From the menu —-> add-ons —-> kernel —-> drivers —-> dev —-> net
there is an item “rtl81xx” that sems to correspond with the RTL network chip.
I made a screenshot of the “Network Preferences” window on the Haiku computer.
Then I wanted to transfer the .png file to my internet computer using a USB flash memory
stick but the Haiku computer could not open the USB memory, it was not displayed at all
in the directories / files window. I tried with other USB sticks, it was the same. This seems
to imply a problem again with the SIS Southbridge chipset where the USB function is
also integrated. It seems that Southbridge chipset is not installed at all.
Thanks for your help.
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in Terminal :
listdev
listusb -v
listimage 1
Hi,
First, the BSD Hardware site has found an entry for “SIS964“, the SIS Southbridge
chipset (complete name is “SIS964L“).
Second I executed those 3 commands in a terminal:
>> listdev<< >> listusb -v<< >>listimage 1<<
and I made a text file with the output. However I cannot transfer that file to my
internet computer because the Haiku computer cannot open whatever USB
memory stick I connect to it. I tried the “mount“ command from the menu,
it does’t work. See my precedent post for more on this.
Thanks for your help,
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My network card - listdev output
device Network controller (Ethernet controller) [2|0|0]
vendor 10ec: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.
device 8125: RTL8125 2.5GbE Controller
listimage 1 output - loaded net driver
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/net/rtl8125
Does Haiku detect your network card?
Hi,
<< listdev >> command produce no output at all
<< listusb -v>> command produce no output at all
<< listimage 1 >> command there is many lines of output
In that generic line: /boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/AAAAA/*****
there is no line where is replaced by
however there is:
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/network/stack
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/network/protocols/udp
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/network/protocols/ipv4
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/network/protocols/ipv6
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/graphics/vesa
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/bus/usb_raw
/boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/zero
boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/null
boot/system/add-ons/kernel/drivers/dev/dprintf
boot/system/add-ons/kernel/bus_managers/ps2
Sooner or later we will find the problem.
Thanks for your patience,
Sorry, that line:
there is no line where is replaced by
should read:
there is no line where ““AAAAA”” is replaced by ““net””
Your network card not supported and not detected.