Date: Tue, 22 Mar 2005 00:26:10 -0500 From: jason henson <jason@ec.rr.com> To: Andrew Robinson <andrewr@uidaho.edu> Cc: Kevin Kinsey <kdk@daleco.biz> Subject: Re: NIC detected, but won't DHCP or configure Message-ID: <423FAC72.70301@ec.rr.com> In-Reply-To: <c333e9c36a8d.c36a8dc333e9@uidaho.edu> References: <c333e9c36a8d.c36a8dc333e9@uidaho.edu>
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Andrew Robinson wrote:
>Dear FreeBSD hackers,
>
>I posted the following question on freebsd-questions. Two kind souls kicked it around for a little and suggested that I pass it on to you.
>
>I have a laptop with a netowrk card that seems to be successfully detected under FreeBSD, Knoppix, and WinXP, but will only work under Knoppix and WinXP.
>
>I tender the following for your information. Windows identifies the card as Realtek RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC. scanpci and pciconf (see below) seem to agree.
>
>Under FreeBSD:
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>dmesg:
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>
>
>pciconf -lv output is:
>==============
>
>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
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Try kldload if_re.ko, and man if_re.
This means that you have no driver attached to it:
none4@pci10:3:0:
See how I have the if_nv.ko loaded and working.
nv0@pci0:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10001695 chip=0x006610de rev=0xa1
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
device = 'nForce MCP-T Networking Adapter'
class = network
subclass = etherne
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