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I'm trying to get my new Realtek RTL-8169 NIC (over CardBus) to work, but I'm having this weird problem. My lspci -x output looks like this: 

[root@comp]# lspci -x -d *:8169
07:00.0 Non-VGA unclassified device: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL-8169 Gigabit Ethernet (rev ec)
00: ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00
10: ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00
20: ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00
30: ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00 ec 10 69 81 00 00 00 00

. Does this mean the card is messed up? PCI configuration registers are looking crazy, they only contain vendor and device id repeatedly. The contents should definitely be different, and when I try to write to them with setpci, the values just stay the same.

Does anyone know what might be wrong?

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Perhaps that card is missing in pci-ids? Have your tried to download a linux-driver for that card from Realtek?

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lspci read from HW, not from pci-ids DB.Driver has nothing to do with output from lspci. – rkosegi Sep 22 '12 at 11:50
@rkosegi I may cite from man lspci: FILES /usr/share/hwdata/pci.ids A list of all known PCI ID’s (vendors, devices, classes and subclasses). Maintained at http://pciids.sourceforge.net/, use the update-pciids utility to download the most recent version. – Nils Sep 23 '12 at 20:49

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