NIC detected, but won't DHCP or configure

[Andrew Robinson]

Thanks for the patch.  This is the outcome:

re_probe(): vid 10ec did 8169 hwrev 10000000

Andrew

----- Original Message -----
From: des at des.no (Dag-Erling Smørgrav)
Date: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 10:11 am
Subject: Re: NIC detected, but won't DHCP or configure

> "Daniel O'Connor" <doconnor at gsoft.com.au> writes:
> > On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 17:30, Andrew Robinson wrote:
> > > thanks for the suggestion!  I tried that and it didn't seem to 
> change> > anything: the relevant output of pciconf -lv is still
> > Try if_rl.ko/rl0
> 
> No, if_rl will not attach to 8169 cards.
> 
> Andrew, it seems you have a chip revision which isn't currently
> supported.  Try applying the attached patch, and see if loading
> if_re.ko results in something like this:
> 
> re_probe(): vid 10ec did 8169 hwrev 00800000
> 
> the first two numbers should be exactly as shown, but the last number
> should be different; let me know what it is.
> 
> DES
> -- 
> Dag-Erling Smørgrav - des at des.no
> 
>