Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 23:13:18 +0100 (CET) From: Soren Schmidt <sos@spider.deepcore.dk> To: Russell Jackson <rjackson@cserv62.csub.edu> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: RTL8139C+ re driver watchdog timeout Message-ID: <200312142213.hBEMDI3Q099167@spider.deepcore.dk> In-Reply-To: <3FDCDBFD.6040801@cserv62.csub.edu>
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It seems Russell Jackson wrote:
> Ever since 8139C+ support was seperated from the rl driver into the re
> driver, I have had timeout problems. The interface simply stops
> responding randomly. I never had this problem with the rl driver. At
> first I thought this might be do to ACPI not initializing the NIC
> correctly, but I have the same problem with ACPI disabled. Ifconfig
> doesn't correctly display media status either. It shows media (none)
> even though a cable is connected, and the interface will work (however
> with the timeout problem).
>
> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
> inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
> ether 00:08:02:d0:21:4e
> media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (none)
>
> Note that I set the media type and mediaopt manually with ifconfig. It
> still shows a status of none.
>
> Also note that this same hardware did work perfectly before with the old
> rl driver.
Just a "me too" entry here, I've put an ifconfig down/up in crontab
every minute, that seems to keep the interface up :)
-Søren
Yes I know it works under windows!!
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