Windows XP: RTL8111C Driver cannot start (code 10)

[inaxeon]

Anyone else seen this problem? or not seen this problem?

I'm quite amazed that something so simple as an RTL8111C could fail. There's just not a whole lot of stuff you can change in an RTL8111C deployment to make the Windows driver refuse to load...

D945GSEJT has this chip too, and it works perfectly with the same driver, neither have anything complex like external PHYs. PEX Clock is good, PHY Clock looks OK. What the on earth is wrong with this thing?! I'm wondering if there is something in its EEPROM that the Windows driver isn't happy with. Might try diffing the EEPROM contents sometime in the near future.

Any other theories?

[danfoshizzle]

Same here as the diplay drivers different jogglers have varying results

[inaxeon]

If anyone does have one that works, PM me. I'd like to see if I can get the contents of the EEPROM on yours (assuming this is possible? Haven't looked into that yet)

[danfoshizzle]

The best Idea we came up with was somehow updating the firmware on the RTL, but without the use of dos, we could not work out how to do it, as dos does not boot on the joggler, again, if you come up with anything let us all know dude!

[inaxeon]

I think you guys were onto something there. I've compared its hardware against D945GSEJT and can't see any other reason why it wouldn't work. There's probably something stupid in there i.e. bad checksum or some other funny stuff that Linux driver doesn't care about.

You need a DOS util to write the EEPROM? That's a bummer.

I just hope Realtek have documented how to write out the EEPROM, so we can at least write an app or hacky linux kernel module to do it.

[Mevi]

Yes, we've all been banging our heads against the wall with this error 10.... I have pulled all 5 of my Jogglers apart looking for differences in the HW and collated some serial numbers from other users.... Of mine, 2 work OK, the other 3 error 10. :sadface:

[inaxeon]

Windows drivers always start with a single "init" function which returns an integer, so when you see things like "code 10" that's what the init function of the Realtek driver returned. Without access to the source code for the realtek driver, there's no easy way to interpret this code, but I'm confident it shouldn't be too hard to figure out.

[morf3h]

I have also had endless problems with drivers and getting my wireless to work.. I have tried around 20 different drivers to with no success until I came accross a universla driver for all RALINK USB ... I can not find the website I got it from but here is the file name!

IS_AP_STA_RT2870_D-3.2.9.0_042412_Free.exe

It only seems to work in joggler windows using the RALINK software.. does not seem to work with windows WSC ..

Hope it helps someone!

MoRf3h

[inaxeon]

Nothing to stop you from putting something else in there!