Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
> The patch was not intended to address your issue. It was for > getting correct MAC revision number. So seeing no behavioral change > is normal. > The MAC revision number now indicates 0x0010 which means you > have slightly different variant. I'll let you know if I happen to > find m

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-26 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 08:09:36AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I rebuilt the kernel while keeping the existing kernel, installing to > /boot/kernelre on the USB stick. > > Unfortunately all the modules were redundantly rebuilt. Maybe I should have > had "-D NO_MODULES" instead of "-DNO_MODUL

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-26 Thread Thomas Mueller
I rebuilt the kernel while keeping the existing kernel, installing to /boot/kernelre on the USB stick. Unfortunately all the modules were redundantly rebuilt. Maybe I should have had "-D NO_MODULES" instead of "-DNO_MODULES"? I typed "unload" at the loader prompt, then "boot /boot/kernelre/ker

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-25 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:31:30AM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > > It looks like 8168E-VL. > > Could you try attached patch and show me the dmesg output(re(4) and > > rgephy(4) only)? The patch was generated to support 8106E but it > > will correctly show MAC revision number. > > I assume I go to

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-25 Thread Thomas Mueller
> It looks like 8168E-VL. > Could you try attached patch and show me the dmesg output(re(4) and > rgephy(4) only)? The patch was generated to support 8106E but it > will correctly show MAC revision number. I assume I go to /usr/src and run patch < /home/arlene/computer/re.8106.diff Then rebuild

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-24 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:28:08PM +, Thomas Mueller wrote: > I've been unable to establish Internet connection from a new computer with > Realtek 811E Ethernet despite this Ethernet chip working on another computer > with another MSI motherboard. > > Problem motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER. >

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-23 Thread Thomas Mueller
for MSI Z77 MPOWER motherboard: re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x02 card=0x77511462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x06 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' device = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller' class = network subclass = ethernet ifconfig

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-23 Thread Torfinn Ingolfsen
On Sun, 22 Sep 2013 20:28:08 + "Thomas Mueller" wrote: > I've been unable to establish Internet connection from a new computer with > Realtek 811E Ethernet despite this Ethernet chip working on another computer > with another MSI motherboard. In additiin to the information you have already

Re: dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-23 Thread Thomas Laus
> Related part of /var/run/dmesg.boot is > > re0: port > 0xe000-0xe0f f mem 0xf7d04000-0xf7d04fff,0xf7d0-0xf7d03fff irq 17 at > device 0.0 on pci2 re0: Using 1 MSI-X message re0: Chip rev. 0x2c80 re0: > MAC rev. 0x miibus0: on re0 rgephy0: 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on mi

dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

2013-09-22 Thread Thomas Mueller
I've been unable to establish Internet connection from a new computer with Realtek 811E Ethernet despite this Ethernet chip working on another computer with another MSI motherboard. Problem motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER. Older, by two years, motherboard is MSI Z68MA-ED55(B3). uname -a shows F