Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection NIC undetected, FreeBSD 5.4

Norberto Meijome freebsd at meijome.net
Tue Sep 6 20:18:10 PDT 2005


Andrew Robinson wrote:
> Dear list,
> 
> I am using an Intel PRO/100 VE Network Connection with FreeBSD 5.4
> Release. The card does not seem to be detected. The page at
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/releases/5.4R/hardware-i386.html#ETHERNET
> 
> lists it among the cards that should be supported by fxp.
> 
> My kernel shows that fxp is included:
> 
> device		fxp		# Intel EtherExpress PRO/100B (82557, 82558)
> 
> The relevant output of dmesg is:
> 
> pci5: <network, ethernet> at device 8.0 (no driver attached)
> 
> ifconfig says:
> 
> 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 0x1
> 
> The relevant output of pciconf -lv is:
> 
> none6 at pci5:8:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x01a71028 chip=0x27dc8086 rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor   = 'Intel Corporation'
>     class    = network
>     subclass = ethernet
> 

gday Andrew -

- does it show in ifconfig -a?

- just to make sure you have fxp in the kernel, u may want to try to 
kldload if_fxp - u should get an error if it's already built in, or it 
would start working if it's not:

# kldload if_fxp
kldload: can't load if_fxp: File exists



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