Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 11:04:38 -0800 From: "Kevin G. Eliuk" <canonalis@dccnet.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: Andrew Robinson <andrewr@uidaho.edu> Subject: Re: NIC won't DHCP or configure Message-ID: <423F1AC6.7020100@dccnet.com> In-Reply-To: <b81aceb822ed.b822edb81ace@uidaho.edu> References: <b81aceb822ed.b822edb81ace@uidaho.edu>
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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.
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