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Date:      Mon, 14 Feb 2011 23:59:19 GMT
From:      Théophile Studer <theo.studer@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   misc/154789: FreeBSD doesn't recognise RTL8101E
Message-ID:  <201102142359.p1ENxJrA049867@red.freebsd.org>
Resent-Message-ID: <201102150000.p1F00MKf000479@freefall.freebsd.org>

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>Number:         154789
>Category:       misc
>Synopsis:       FreeBSD doesn't recognise RTL8101E
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Feb 15 00:00:21 UTC 2011
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Théophile Studer
>Release:        FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE amd64, FreeBSD 8.2RC3 amd64, FreeBSD 9-CURRENT amd64,
>Organization:
EPFL
>Environment:
FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE  #0: Mon Jul 19 02:36:49 UTC 2010 root@mason.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC amd64
>Description:
I have a RealTek 8101E ethernet card, which is supposed to work under FreeBSD using re driver.

The ethernet card is recognised during boot, here is the output of `dmesg | grep re0` :

re0: <RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL/8103E PCIe 10/100baseTX> ...
re0: Using 1 MSI messages
re0: Chip rev. 0x24000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
re0: Unknown H/W revision rev. 0x24000000
device_attach: re0 attach returned 6

But when I do `ifconfig -a`, only lo0 is printed.
>How-To-Repeat:
 - Install FreeBSD 8.1, 8.2RC3 or 9-CURRENT
 - ifconfig -a
>Fix:


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:



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