From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 15:38:06 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 1E9C516A41F for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:38:06 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (smtp.thilelli.net [213.41.129.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7443343D45 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:38:04 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 87CE95C99; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:03 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 51791-01; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:37:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 340E75C96; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:37:57 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.1.20 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:37:57 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <59274.192.168.1.20.1124638677.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: 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> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:37:57 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" To: "Dmitry Mityugov" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at thilelli.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jpeg@thilelli.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:38:06 -0000 >>>> 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.