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Subject: Re: FBSD 7.0-p3 NIC driver problem (Realtek)
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On Fri, 20 Feb 2009, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:

> Yesterday I updated to 7.1-p3 on AMD64 arch.
>
> Since then, the NIC is not detected anymore. ifconfig doesn't show it
> and I can't connect to the Internet.
>
> There were well-known issues with this NIC model before,
> (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2008-11/msg00299.html)
> but the weird thing is that it seemed to be fine with
> 7.1-RELEASE and newer till this -p3.

Please identify the NIC more precisely with

     pciconf -lv | grep -B2 Ethernet

> It doesn't recognize the card in 4/5 boot sequences (really annoying).
>
> Anybody with this problem?

If you can do 'ifconfig re0' and then the NIC is active, see this:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130586&cat=

-Warren Block * Rapid City, South Dakota USA