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Date:      Sat, 20 Aug 2005 09:50:53 +0400
From:      Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.
Message-ID:  <b7052e1e050819225070b547a4@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <57189.145.248.192.30.1123665610.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net>
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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.
>=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"



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