On Wed, Oct 05, 2011 at 11:56:48AM -0400, Jim Rosenberg wrote: > I have a new Compaq 100B on which I've installed 4.9 amd64 (dmesg below). > Everything seems to work fine except the network. The network is giving > me results so strange I'm struggling to understand what could be going > wrong, even given that Realtek 8101E does not show on the list of supported > hardware. Here's the problem:
> re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8101E" rev 0x05: unknown ASIC (0x4080), > apic 0 int 16 (irq 7), address 2c:27:d7:32:1c:27 > ukphy0 at re0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface, rev. 2: OUI > 0x000732, model 0x0008 Your NIC controller is recognized, but the ASIC that manages the Ethernet connection is not. The PHY driver that was attached was ukphy(4), for generic and unknown PHY devices. I'm guessing that your MAC address was 00:00:00:00:00:00, and while it will respond to broadcast packets, such as those used with DHCP, it cannot be addressed point to point on its subnet. Install a -current snapshot, and see if that solves the problem for you.
