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Subject: Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure
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Andrew Robinson wrote:

>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<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>	options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>	ether 02:90:f5:40:24:d8
>	ch 1 dma -1
>plip0: flags=108810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> 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: <IEEE1394(FireWire) bus> on fwohci0
>fwe0: <Ethernet over FireWire> 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!
>  
>
It's not recognizing it at all.  If (as I assume you do) have X 
installed could you supply the output of 'scanpci'.  It will provide 
more information.

-- 
Cheers,

Kevin.