Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:16:07 +0200 From: Johan Bucht <bucht@acc.umu.se> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re(4) problems (realtek 8169S) Message-ID: <20040728011607.GA28046@montezuma.acc.umu.se> In-Reply-To: <20040728005115.GA27536@montezuma.acc.umu.se> References: <20040728005115.GA27536@montezuma.acc.umu.se>
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On 28 July, 2004 - Johan Bucht wrote: > > Hi all, I recently bought a Level1 Realtek 8169S, 10/100/1000mbit PCI > card. > However I can't get it to work properly as I frequently get checksum > errors as well as erronous packet lengths. Unsetting the RXCSUM & TXCSUM > options seems to help out but I get timeouts on my connections once > every few minutes. > > The card shows up (misidentified) in dmesg as "RealTek 8110S Single-chip > Gigabit Ethernet" but shows up correctly using pciconf -lv. > > Setting the speed doesn't seem to make a difference and changing cable > or nic on the other end doesn't affect it either. So my guess is either > bad silicon or driver problem. Anyone with similar problems using 8169S > hardware? > -- > /Johan Bucht > bucht@acc.umu.se Some additional information, I'm running 5.2.1 btw. pciconf -lv gives the following information re0@pci0:10:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816910ec chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet this is what shows up in dmesg re0: <RealTek 8110S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe3000000-0xe30000ff irq 1 2 at device 10.0 on pci0 re0: Ethernet address: 00:50:fc:ec:5c:5b miibus1: <MII bus> on re0 rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus1 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto -- /Johan Bucht bucht@acc.umu.se
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