Trying to install and run FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT (FreeBSD-11.0-CURRENT-amd64-20140903-r270990-memstick.img) on a new Lenovo E540 notebook fails in activating the NIC (Realtek RTL8111/8168B, driver re[0]). The NIC shows up as active and with carrier when issuing "ifconfig re0".
From a desktop machine, I tried to ping the system in question and I get a
result with
missing packets:
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
ping: sendto: Host is down
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=26 ttl=64 time=0.114 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=41 ttl=64 time=0.130 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=60 ttl=64 time=0.119 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=80 ttl=64 time=0.119 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=100 ttl=64 time=0.105 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=116 ttl=64 time=0.135 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.0.130: icmp_seq=136 ttl=64 time=0.091 ms
DHCP configuration fails, since no DHCP offer is discovered.
I swapped the switches, the cabling and I had always the same results. I used
another
Laptop, Dell Latitude E6510 with the same configuration (/etc/rc.conf) and that
system
gets DHCP offer and is online.
Since the notebook is brandnew, the last thing I'll "suspect" is a defective
NIC, so I'll
ask whether this phenomenon is known - or, if not, the results definititely
would
indicate a broken NIC.
Another point is the WiFI adaptor. This notebook is supposed to have a WiFi
NIC, but it
doesn't get revealed by FreeBSD (I tried iwn/iwi without success).
pciconf output below, sorry for the messy shape, it is a copy-and-paste from
that immature
vt() terminal.
Has anyone successfully installed that type of Notebook with FreeBSD CURRENT
using NIC
and Wifi?
Please CC me.
Regards
oh
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none1@pci0:3:0:0: class=0xff0000 card=0x502817aa chip=0x522710ec rev=0x01
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
bar [10] = type Memory, range 32, base 0xf1e00000, size 4096, enabled
cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current D0
cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint max data 128(128) link x1(x1)
speed 2.5(2.5) ASPM L0s/L1(L0s/L1)
ecap 0001[100] = AER 2 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 0 corrected
ecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 00000001004ce000
re0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x502817aa chip=0x816810ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
subclass = ethernet
cap 01[40] = powerspec 3 supports D0 D1 D2 D3 current
D0
di sabled(L0s/L1)
cap 11[b0] = MSI-X supports 4 messages, enabled
ecap 0001[100] = AER 2 0 fatal 0 non-fatal 4 corrected
ecap 001e[178] = unknown 1
class = network
cap 05[d0] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
ecap 0003[140] = Serial 1 ac7ba1ffffa06fd6
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