[email protected] (Luis Falcon) writes: >Reading the re man page, "The 8169S and 8110S are single-chip devices >containing both a 10/100/1000 MAC and 10/100/1000 copper PHY, which is >supported by rgephy(4)".
>Could it be that the kernel is assigning the "re" driver to the >device instead of "rgephy"? dmesg shows "RTL8169SBL". re(4) is the driver for the MAC engine, rgephy(4) is the driver for the PHY (tranceiver). Some chips combine both functions into a single package. Here I get: [ 1.016855] re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Eth ernet (rev. 0x15) [ 1.016855] rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8251 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 0 Your RTL8169SBL should be supported, but apparently it's not responding. You also see that the driver reads ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as ethernet address which is another sign that the chip doesn't respond or isn't accessed correctly.
