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Old 6th January 2009
KlaymenDK KlaymenDK is offline
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Question Well riddle me this!

My, how interesting! I've just downloaded, burnt, and installed the first 2009 snapshot ("uname -a" reports "FreeBSD desktopbsd 7.1-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE #22: Sun Jan 4 03:52:16 UTC 2009"). At the first boot, I checked to see if the network card was there, and it wasn't. I've got both IP and Ethernet over Firewire as well as a PLIP network interface, but ... no Realtek or 're0' device.
Curiously, "dmesg" does detect this:
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re0: <RealTek 8168/8168B/8168C/8168CP/8168D/8111B/8111C/8111CP PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xeb010000-0xeb010fff,0xeb000000-0xeb00ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00400000
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: MII without any phy!
device_attach: re0 attach returned 6
BUT what's interesting is that I write this post from the live cd system running off that same installation DVD -- it may not be able to install it, but it sure does have what's required!
Even now, where it's actually working, "kldstat -v | grep if_re" does not report any hits, and "loader.conf" actually lists "if_re_load="NO"".
Also, "dmesg" identifies it as:
Code:
re0: <RealTek 8168/8168B/8168C/8168CP/8168D/8111B/8111C/8111CP PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 0xeb010000-0xeb010fff,0xeb000000-0xeb00ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci4
re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00400000
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
re0: Ethernet address: 00:1f:d0:27:37:76
re0: [FILTER]
I'm sure there's a way to get this driver off of the DVD, but I'm just too much of a noob to pull that off. I will make sure there's a ticket for this in the DesktopBSD project.

... later that evening ...

I have found that [URL="http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130011"]FreeBSD kern/130011 ticket/URL] already documents this issue. Even better, there's a proposed workaround from the maintainer which apparently works for someone. I'll try the same thing, and report back here.
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