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Date:      Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:50:29 -0400
From:      "Michael W. Oliver" <michael@gargantuan.com>
To:        Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.
Message-ID:  <20050820225029.GF5673@gargantuan.com>
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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On 2005-08-20T09:50:53+0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
> On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel <jpeg@thilelli.net> 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.

>>> 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.
>=20
> 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 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...


re0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1000
re0: <RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x=
d0008800-0xd00088ff irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci0
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus0
rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000b=
aseTX-FDX, auto
re0: bpf attached
re0: Ethernet address: 00:90:f5:32:35:9f
re0: [GIANT-LOCKED]


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