ethernet on MSI K8N under 5.3-RELEASE amd64

From: Matthew Bluestone (matthew.bluestone_at_gmail.com)
Date: 02/02/05

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    I just got an MSI K8N Neo2 Platinum motherboard with an AMD Athlon 64
    3000+ CPU to replace the burned out board in an older system. This
    board has two onboard LAN controllers.

    Before installing FreeBSD I wanted to get my old files off a drive
    running Red Hat 7.3; that drive booted, but the system was not finding
    the network.

    So I installed FreeBSD 5.3-RELEASE amd64 on the other hard drive in
    the system, and it still does not find the network. During
    installation I had an ethernet cable plugged in to one of the system's
    two LAN jacks, and the steps for configuring the ethernet and
    ethernet-over-firewire seemed to work.

    But I cannot see the network from that system or that system from
    others on my network.

    When the cable is plugged into that jack, ifconfig says
    re0: [blah, blah]
    status: active
    and when it's plugged into the other the status line is "no carrier".

    The fact that the interface wasn't working under Red Hat Linux 7.3 or
    under FreeBSD 5.3 makes me wonder if this is simply a hardware setup
    problem, but everything else seems to be working correctly, and while
    I was admittedly unsure about some of the vast array of cables, there
    wasn't even anything to connect for onboard ethernet (was there?).

    Suggestions on what I might be doing wrong either in hardware setup or
    with the OS are appreciated.

    dmesg includes the following:
    re0: <RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x9400-0x94ff
    mem 0xfb000000-0xfb0000ff irq 5 at device 10.0 on pci2
    miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
    rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus0
    rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
    1000baseTX-FDX, auto
    re0: Ethernet address: 00:11:09:c9:bd:3f

    ...

    stray irq7
    strayirq7
    arp: 192.168.23.254 is on fwe0 but got reply from 00:00:00:94:c6:e5:16 on re0
    arp: 192.168.23.254 is on fwe0 but got reply from 00:00:00:94:c6:e5:16 on re0
    stray irq7
    too many stray irq 7's: not logging anymore
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