On Dec 26, 2007 7:09 AM, Ted Hendriks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > > I have installed v4.2 and using the GENERIC kernel. I am not able to > bring up the on-board NIC card. My motherboard is a Gigabyte > GA-945GCM-S2L. The on-board NIC is a Realtek 8111C. > > > Here is what dmesg reports on the card: > > re0 at pci2 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x02: unknown ASIC > (0x3c00), irq 10, address 00:00:00:00:00:00 > rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8169S/8110S PHY, rev. 2 >
I have a laptop with this "Realtek 8168" onboard card, it seens to work but, when I start using network stuff the system hangs without any response, it just freezes. What I have done is disable the re* device and attach a PCMCIA Realtek 8139 (rl0). Now everything just works. > > And the info from ifconfig: > > re0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500 > lladdr 00:00:00:00:00:00 > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT > full-duplex,loopback,master,rxpause,txpause) > status: active > > > When I manually bring the card up, I get: re0: PHY write failed > > > > I confirmed the card/cable is working with Ubuntu 7.10 and winXP. > > > > Any ideas? > > > Thanks, > Ted > > Fabio Almeida
