From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Aug 21 15:38:10 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 1D94E16A42D for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:38:10 +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 D9F0343D48 for ; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 15:38:08 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id DD87A5C9A; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:07 +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 50673-06; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0A2C5C98; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:02 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.1.20 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:02 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <59274.192.168.1.20.1124638682.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <20050820225029.GF5673@gargantuan.com> 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> <20050820225029.GF5673@gargantuan.com> Date: Sun, 21 Aug 2005 17:38:02 +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 15:38:10 -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. I just replied to this on an other post. > I have RTL8169S in my laptop, and have seen the same up/down/up/down > etc. behavior that is noted in PR 80005. I am running 7-CURRENT about a > day old. I switched from my custom kernel back to GENERIC and the > problem went away, so I started adding things from my custom config file > into GENERIC to see what finally broke it, and it turned out to be: > > options ACPI_DEBUG > > Just thought that I would mention it... Certainly, thanks... very interesting! Although it doesn't seems to be the problem, since i didn't set this kernel option. On the other hand, i am currently testing RELENG_6, not -CURRENT: maybe is this problem finally fixed on HEAD (i will give it a try in a near future, if i can). Thank you, -- -jpeg.