Problem with IF_RE

[Pietro Cerutti]

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freebsd at vfemail.net wrote:
| Dear List Members
|
| I am having an issue with a RealTek card for networking. The card in
| question is recognised by FB alright, as you can see in the pciconf output
|
| re0 at pci0:2:8:0: class=0x020000 card=0x311a1385 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10
| hdr=0x00
|     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
|     device     = 'RTL8110SB Single-Chip Gigabit LOM Ethernet Controller'
|     class      = network
|     subclass   = ethernet
|
| But when I do an ifconfig, the result says Media None and No Carrier
|
| re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
|         options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
|         ether 00:1e:2a:3b:2e:62
|         inet x.x.x.x netmask 0xffffffe0 broadcast x.x.x.x
|         media: Ethernet none
|         status: no carrier
|
| I know for a fact that the cable and the connection is alright -- I
| tried with other devices (like Laptops and other desktops), and when I
| plug the cable into the RTL card, the light on the switch shows
| connection established.
|
| But ifconfig report shows "no carrier" ? ? ?
|
| Any and all help is highly appreciated. I have already CVSupped twice
| within this week and built world and kernels from scratch as well.
|
| uname -a
| FreeBSD **** 7.0-RELEASE-p1 FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE-p1 #3: Thu Jun 12
| 15:24:40 BST 2008
|
|
| kldstat
| Id Refs Address    Size     Name
|  1   18 0xc0400000 7bdce8   kernel
|  2    2 0xc0bbe000 28588    linux.ko
|  3    1 0xc0be7000 7558c4   nvidia.ko
|  4    1 0xc133d000 7a88     if_re.ko
|  5    1 0xc1345000 6921c    acpi.ko
|  6    1 0xc35c5000 4000     nullfs.ko
|  7    1 0xc4623000 1e000    smbfs.ko
|  8    2 0xc4641000 3000     libiconv.ko
|  9    2 0xc4644000 3000     libmchain.ko
|
|
| All practical suggestions and pointers are highly appreciated.

Uhm, just out of curiosity, do you have the line

devd_enable="YES"

in your /etc/rc.conf?

|
| Thanks.



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Pietro Cerutti
gahr at FreeBSD.org

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