Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 19:11:47 -0500 From: Matthew Bluestone <matthew.bluestone@gmail.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: ethernet on MSI K8N under 5.3-RELEASE amd64 Message-ID: <4e25c6140502011611a4c26b@mail.gmail.com>
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I just got an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64 3000+ CPU to replace the burned out board in an older system. This board has two onboard LAN controllers. Before installing FreeBSD I wanted to get my old files off a drive running Red Hat 7.3; that drive booted, but the system was not finding the network. So I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE amd64 on the other hard drive in the system, and it still does not find the network. During installation I had an ethernet cable plugged in to one of the system's two LAN jacks, and the steps for configuring the ethernet and ethernet-over-firewire seemed to work. But I cannot see the network from that system or that system from others on my network. When the cable is plugged into that jack, ifconfig says re0: [blah, blah] status: active and when it's plugged into the other the status line is "no carrier". The fact that the interface wasn't working under Red Hat Linux 7.3 or under FreeBSD 5.3 makes me wonder if this is simply a hardware setup problem, but everything else seems to be working correctly, and while I was admittedly unsure about some of the vast array of cables, there wasn't even anything to connect for onboard ethernet (was there?). Suggestions on what I might be doing wrong either in hardware setup or with the OS are appreciated. dmesg includes the following: re0: <RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x9400-0x94ff mem 0xfb000000-0xfb0000ff irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci2 miibus0: <MII bus> on re0 rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus0 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto re0: Ethernet address: 00:11:09:c9:bd:3f ... stray irq7 strayirq7 arp: 192.168.23.254 is on fwe0 but got reply from 00:00:00:94:c6:e5:16 on re0 arp: 192.168.23.254 is on fwe0 but got reply from 00:00:00:94:c6:e5:16 on re0 stray irq7 too many stray irq 7's: not logging anymore
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