Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:37:57 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "Dmitry Mityugov" <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier. Message-ID: <59274.192.168.1.20.1124638677.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <b7052e1e050819225070b547a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <42F93030.2050509@thesnodgrass.com> <10303.145.248.192.30.1123662749.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <b7052e1e050810020041527145@mail.gmail.com> <57189.145.248.192.30.1123665610.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <b7052e1e050819225070b547a4@mail.gmail.com>
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>>>> 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. >>> IIRC, I have a RTL8169S-based D-Link gigabit network card at home and >>> it works with FreeBSD just fine. >> 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. With or without ACPI support, it doesn't chang anything here. Under RELENG_6 now, i always get the problem with these (lot of) kernel messages at boot time: - re0: 2 link states coalesced - re0: link state changed to DOWN - re0: link state changed to UP Note 1: It is a little better though, since the DHCP client can wait in foreground the link to come up then only continue the boot, making network related stuff relatively happy (ntpdate, ntpd, etc.). Note 2: Just try to disable APIC but leave ACPI enable (as this helped me in an other situation and for an other problem, see PR usb/74989)... this leads me to a LOR follow by a panic (try this 3 times) at boot time. So, it seems a very bad idea here :\ Thanks, -- -jpeg.
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