RTL8168/8111 Not Being Assigned to Interface

[Al Plant]

hamtilla wrote:
> I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-i386 on Jetway's NC92-N230 mainboard. The board has
> one integrated RTL8168/8111 gigabit NIC as well as an expansion board with
> three RTL8168/8111 NICs. 
> 
> none2 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> re0 at pci0:2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> re1 at pci0:2:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> re2 at pci0:2:7:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet 
> 
> 
> Why would the three NICs work while the onboard NIC does not? I would
> imagine the same driver services both controllers. Do I need to assign an
> interface to the device somehow?
> 
> Thank you!
Aloha,

I use the same PCI cards in a number of servers. All work fine. But on 
board ones are only 100 so I dont use them.

However I notice that the on board nic in your case uses a different 
chipset:

chip=0x816810ec is onboard.
chip=0x816710ec is slot pci's.

I dont know what this means in respect to operation problems though.



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