dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

[Thomas Laus]

> Related part of /var/run/dmesg.boot is
> 
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
> 0xe000-0xe0f f mem 0xf7d04000-0xf7d04fff,0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff irq 17 at
> device 0.0 on pci2 re0: Using 1 MSI-X message re0: Chip rev. 0x2c800000 re0:
> MAC rev. 0x00000000 miibus0: <MII bus> on re0 rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211
> 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0 rgephy0:  none, 10baseT,
> 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX , 100baseTX-FDX-flow,
> 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX- master,
> 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow re0: Ethernet
> address: d4:3d:7e:97:17:e2
>
Thomas:

That NIC chip works for me and gets it's address information using DHCP.

Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #1: Sat Aug 31 12:13:51 
EDT 2013

Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x2000-0x20ff mem 0xf0004000-0xf0004fff,0xf0000000-0xf0003fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: re0: Chip rev. 0x28000000
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master,1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
Aug 31 16:09:13 mail kernel: re0: Ethernet address: 70:71:bc:18:1b:97

Tom

 
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