NIC detected, but won't DHCP or configure

[jason henson]

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:
>
>dmesg:
>
>  
>
>pciconf -lv output is:
>==============
>
>none4 at 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 at pci10:5:0: class=0x028000 card=0x68331462 chip=0x02011814 rev=0x01
>hdr=0x00
>vendor = 'Ralink Technology Corp'
>class = network
>
>
>  
>
Try kldload if_re.ko, and man if_re.  

This means that you have no driver attached to it:
none4 at pci10:3:0:

See how I have the if_nv.ko loaded and working.

nv0 at 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