Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 10:54:24 -0800 From: Andrew Robinson <andrewr@uidaho.edu> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Cc: andrewr@uidaho.edu Subject: NIC won't DHCP or configure Message-ID: <b81aceb822ed.b822edb81ace@uidaho.edu>
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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! Andrew
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