Hi Rony,

Can you please provide the output of: lspci & uname -a?

- Noam

On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 5:14 PM, ronys <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Debian etch (latest stable) distro installed on the above PC results in an
> unusable onboard NIC.
>
> /var/log/messages tell me that the NIC is
> Jul 15 19:15:54 hostname kernel: eth0: RTL8168b/8111b at 0xf8822000,
> 00:1d:92:a1:96:19, IRQ 177
>
> The module for it is found and loaded:
> Jul 15 19:15:54 hostname kernel: r8169 Gigabit Ethernet driver 2.2LK-NAPI
> loaded
>
> However, the NIC never gets an IP address from DHCP. Even worse, ethtool
> shows that it's totally confused as to its identity:
> # ethtool eth0
> Settings for eth0:
>        Supported ports: [ FIBRE ]
>        Supported link modes:   1000baseT/Full
>        Supports auto-negotiation: Yes
>        Advertised link modes:  Not reported
>        Advertised auto-negotiation: Yes
>        Speed: 1000Mb/s
>        Duplex: Full
>        Port: FIBRE
>        PHYAD: 0
>        Transceiver: internal
>        Auto-negotiation: on
>        Supports Wake-on: pumbg
>        Wake-on: pumbg
>        Current message level: 0x00000033 (51)
>        Link detected: yes
>
> (FIBRE port when it really should be TP - Twisted Pair)
>
> Google didn't find anything useful. My current workaround is adding another
> NIC, which works fine, but is unacceptable in the long term.
>
> This occurs on two different PCs that have the same motherboard, so it's
> not a fluke hardware issue.
>
> Also, if I play around with ifup/ifdown AFTER booting it, I can sometimes
> get it to work, but only at 10MB/sec (connected to a 100 MB/s switch).
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Rony
>
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