For what it's worth, the same intel NIC works in another AMD64 machine.
Adam On Tuesday 29 March 2011 17:38:44 Adam K Kirchhoff wrote: > I have a workstation here onto which I have installed NetBSD 5.1/amd64. > Everything during the installation went fine and upon rebooting the > first thing I tried to do was acquire an IP address on the intel NIC, > which was detected as fxp0: > > fxp0 at pci5 dev 5 function 0: i82559 Ethernet, rev 8 > fxp0: interrupting at ioapic1 pin 2 > fxp0: Ethernet address 00:02:b3:10:15:db > inphy0 at fxp0 phy 1: i82555 10/100 media interface, rev. 4 > inphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto > > Unfortunately, dhclient fails to acquire an IP address. If I manually > set one, I'm still unable to ping the router on the network. Mind you, > the NIC is fine as slackware, vista, and FreeBSD all work with it. I > then downloaded and upgraded from the latest daily ISO. Once again, the > NIC failed to acquire an IP address. The driver can clearly tell if > there is cable plugged in, as the status switches from "active" to "no > carrier". > > Now, today I downloaded and burned the i386 5.1 CD and rebooted. I quit > out of the installer and ran dhclient from the shell... And, much to my > surprise, I was able to get an IP address. > > I'm attaching the full dmesg from the 5.1.0_PATCH/amd64. If there is > anything I can test to get this working, please let me know. > > Adam
