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

Greg Maruszeczka greg at grokking.org
Tue Sep 6 20:46:53 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
> 
> In WinXP the physical device is identified as
> 
> Intel 82562 ET 100 Base-TX PHY
> 
> Does anyone have any suggestions?
> 


By coincidence I just installed 5.4 REL on my Gateway notebook this
afternoon, which has the Intel PRO 100 on-board. In my case it was
detected immediately and coupled with the fxp driver enabled in GENERIC.

FWIW the output of pciconf -lv on my notebook yields this:

fxp0 at pci2:8:0 class=0x20000 card=0x0200107b chip=0x103d8086 rev=0x81
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Intel Corporation
device = '82801DB (ICH4) PRO/100 VE Network Connection'
class = network
subclass = ethernet

I don't know enough about these numbers to say for sure but obviously
your output and mine are quite different, particularly WRT "card" and
"chip".

Are you absolutely sure you have this particular adapter and not some
variant?


G


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