From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 19:43:25 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 69A3616A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:43:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx2.uidaho.edu (mx2.uidaho.edu [129.101.155.249]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A4C8143D1D for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:43:24 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrewr@uidaho.edu) Received: from mailA.its.uidaho.edu (mailA.its.uidaho.edu [129.101.155.252]) by mx2.uidaho.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2LJhNvp005284 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:43:23 -0800 Received: from uidaho.edu (mailA [129.101.155.252]) by mailA.its.uidaho.edu (Go Vandals!) with ESMTP id <0IDP00ISNW4B3Y@mailA.its.uidaho.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:43:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.101.155.252] (Forwarded-For: [129.101.156.200]) by mailA.its.uidaho.edu (mshttpd); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:43:23 -0800 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:43:23 -0800 From: Andrew Robinson To: Charles Swiger Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: iPlanet Messenger Express 5.2 HotFix 1.21 (built Sep 8 2003) Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-language: en Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Content-disposition: inline X-Accept-Language: en Priority: normal X-SpamDetails: rule=notspam policy= score=0 mlx=0 adultscore=0 adjust=0 engine=2.5.0-05031800 definitions=2.5.0-05032001 X-SpamScore: 0 cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 19:43:25 -0000 Hi Chuck, Thanks for the suggestion - that's beyond my exerptise, but here is the (hopefully relevant) output of pciconf ########################################### none4@pci10:3:0: class=0x020000 card=0x09001558 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet none5@pci10:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x68331462 chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Ralink Technology Corp' class = network ########################################### I would appreciate any further advice or assistance, Andrew ----- Original Message ----- From: Charles Swiger Date: Monday, March 21, 2005 11:12 am Subject: Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure > Hi, Andrew-- > > On Mar 21, 2005, at 1:54 PM, Andrew Robinson wrote: > > It makes me wonder if FreeBSD is identifying the card as > something > > different than it is. Is that possible? What next steps might > be > > useful for me to take? > > Take a look at the output of "pciconf -v -l". The odds are that > it > lists a PCI ID for your NIC that the FreeBSD driver doesn't know > about. > Use that information to update /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h and > /usr/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c, and see whether that gets you a > working > driver. If you're not sure how to do this, post the pciconf info > for > just your NIC so that others can try to update the code and get > you a > working driver... > > -- > -Chuck > >