From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 05:50:59 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AA80E16A41F for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:50:59 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: from wproxy.gmail.com (wproxy.gmail.com [64.233.184.203]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 242AC43D45 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:50:58 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com) Received: by wproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id i4so696104wra for ; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:50:53 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=eqYQm8uZSpnzEbtXvfWP+t4ujKhqm8g1UAOvUIg7g2OI6p/iuHeq7UhusFsGOjH3riVz2V/Po5qKIDEBqcPjSpeWUnTT4WijsxLe6WprvjIydY+UKAb4d/zDgZbGfes5DmR3cpXVz2zfwUtwuZhvFtip24FrW4C2lDdPR5avKpc= Received: by 10.54.130.12 with SMTP id c12mr23738wrd; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Received: by 10.54.56.33 with HTTP; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 22:50:53 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:50:53 +0400 From: Dmitry Mityugov To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <57189.145.248.192.30.1123665610.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline References: <42F93030.2050509@thesnodgrass.com> <10303.145.248.192.30.1123662749.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <57189.145.248.192.30.1123665610.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 05:50:59 -0000 On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel wrote: > >> Regrettably, i always encountered this problem. I spoke about that > >> since the middle of 2004, and didn't really receive feedback on this. > >> I try a lot of things but none worked better than the other. > >> > >> To not forget about it, i filled a bug report on this particular > >> problem, see PR kern/80005 for more details. > >> > >> The last thing i want to give another try is to upgrade to RELENG_6, > >> since i currently follow the RELENG_5 branch. But i am not *very* > >> confident about that... > >> > >> Sorry not to have better answer to give you. >=20 > > IIRC, I have a RTL8169S-based D-Link gigabit network card at home and > > it works with FreeBSD just fine. >=20 > Yes, i know it simply works for a lot of users. It doesn't mean that it > is the case for all users... i am of those. Just realized that with ACPI disabled, this card does not work with FreeBSD 5.4 (at least in my machine), with ACPI enabled - it does. Hope this information will help somebody. --=20 Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements "We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"