Ethernet interface

Pff. What bloody use is mentioning the specifications if it doesn't include details. Oh, look, it has an RJ-45, but no mention at all about the chipset they used for it. It doesn't even mention it's ethernet (ISDN uses RJ-45 too).

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Digging through the support pages, there's a download for a Realtek LAN interface. So all I'm able to figure out is that it's some Realtek chip. Great, they've got a gazillion different types.
 
T-Daemon said:
In case you don't have Xorg available post URL of pciconf -vl | grep -B3 network | nc termbin.com 9999 .
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A bit of a chicken and egg problem here. The OPs network card isn't recognized, thus no netwerk connection.

I'll settle for a picture of the pciconf -vl | grep -B3 network output.
 
SirDice said:
A bit of a chicken and egg problem here. The OPs network card isn't recognized, thus no netwerk connection.

I'll settle for a picture of the pciconf -vl | grep -B3 network output.
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I noticed after posting, corrected my post.

If it's not what VladiBG suggests, OP could plugin a smartphone and get a internet connection from there.
 
It might be a good idea to get a cheap USB Ethernet adapter, at least until the problems of the real Ethernet port can be fixed. Only problem is that the cheap ones are sometimes Chinese-made clones that don't actually work, or have unsupported chips. So get a reasonable one.
 
T-Daemon said:
What does pciconf -vl | grep -B3 network return?
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the return is:
Code: 
none7@pci0:4:0:0 class=0x020000 card=0x13051462 chip=0x081251ec rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
vendor="Realtek SemiConductor Co., Ltd"
device='RTL8125 2.5Gbe Controler'
class=network
subclass=ethernet

none8@pci0:6:0:0 class=0x028000 card=0x16741a56 chip=0x27258086 rev=0x1a hdr=0x00
vendor='Intel Corporetion'
class network
Sorry for the wait and thanks for your answer.
 
Installing net/realtek-re-kmod should make the Ethernet interface functional, as suggested by VladiBG and covacat.

To install the package, if you have a smartphone with internet you can plug it into your laptop's USB port and activate USB tethering. This will create a 'ue' USB ethernet interface (check with dmesg(8)), run as root dhclient ue0, then use pkg(8) to install the Realtek driver, and follow the instructions viewed in the post-install message.

Or follow the Realtek forums link VladiBG posted and proceed as described there.
 
T-Daemon said:
Installing net/realtek-re-kmod should make the Ethernet interface functional, as suggested by VladiBG and covacat.

To install the package, if you have a smartphone with internet you can plug it into your laptop's USB port and activate USB tethering. This will create a 'ue' USB ethernet interface (check with dmesg(8)), run as root dhclient ue0, then use pkg(8) to install the Realtek driver, and follow the instructions viewed in the post-install message.

Or follow the Realtek forums link VladiBG posted and proceed as described there.
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Excuse me, but what you suggest is really neater than most things I have heard lately. Thanks a bunch! :)

Ken Gordon
 
ralphbsz said:
It might be a good idea to get a cheap USB Ethernet adapter, at least until the problems of the real Ethernet port can be fixed. Only problem is that the cheap ones are sometimes Chinese-made clones that don't actually work, or have unsupported chips. So get a reasonable one.
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Yes. I agree. Although I can manually load the necessary stuff for my Realtek NIC, I just received a new real Intel NIC which I bought off Amazon the other day.

More later.

Ken Gordon
 
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