On 2008-Nov-21 00:07:26 -0800, hamtilla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-i386 on Jetway's NC92-N230 mainboard. The board has >one integrated RTL8168/8111 gigabit NIC as well as an expansion board with >three RTL8168/8111 NICs. Why would the three NICs work while the onboard NIC >does not? > >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec >rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' > device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' > class = network > subclass = ethernet >[EMAIL PROTECTED]:2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec >rev=0x10 >hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' > device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC' > class = network > subclass = ethernet ...
The on-board NIC is a different type to your expansion cards (note the different 'chip=' values. Looking at the code, it appears that only some variants of the RTL8168 are supported in 7.x. Unfortunately, pciconf doesn't report the actual hardware revision, so you can't tell from the pciconf output whether it's supported or not. Can you report the output of 'pciconf -r pci0:1:0:0 0x40' (which should report the hw revision) and 'pciconf -r pci0:2:4:0 0x40' (which gives me a double-check). You could try booting -current and see if the on-board NIC works there - the range of supported NICs has changed. -- Peter Jeremy Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed behaviour.
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