From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 21 18:54:25 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 D1AD016A4CE for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:54:25 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mx3.uidaho.edu (mx3.uidaho.edu [129.101.155.247]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 59A3743D39 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 18:54:25 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from andrewr@uidaho.edu) Received: from mailA.its.uidaho.edu (mailA.its.uidaho.edu [129.101.155.252]) by mx3.uidaho.edu (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j2LIsOHQ016788 for ; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0800 Received: from uidaho.edu (mailA [129.101.155.252]) by mailA.its.uidaho.edu (Go Vandals!) with ESMTP id <0IDP00IACTUO3Y@mailA.its.uidaho.edu> for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from [129.101.155.252] (Forwarded-For: [129.101.156.200]) by mailA.its.uidaho.edu (mshttpd); Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0800 Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0800 From: Andrew Robinson To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org 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: andrewr@uidaho.edu Subject: 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 18:54:25 -0000 Hello FreeBSD community, I'm trying to get my network card working under 5.3 Release. It won't DHCP. Configuring it using ifconfig doesn't permit any connection. (I also tried the February Stable, with no change as far as I can tell). WinXP identifies the NIC as Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC. Knoppix and WinXP both provide drivers that seem to work. Knoppix autodetects it without any (seeming) problem. My FreeBSD kernel is generic, and both the following lines are uncommented: device miibus # MII bus support device re # RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S The output from ifconfig is: fwe0: flags=108802 mtu 1500 options=8 ether 02:90:f5:40:24:d8 ch 1 dma -1 plip0: flags=108810 mtu 1500 lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3 and what I think is the relevant part of dmesg is: firewire0: on fwohci0 fwe0: on firewire0 if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:90:f5:40:24:d8 fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:90:f5:40:24:d8 fwe0: if_start running deferred for Giant 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? Thanks much! Andrew