Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:10:49 -0800 From: "Scott Gasch" <scott.gasch@gmail.com> To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re driver in 5.3? Message-ID: <a174d0600611280910q7be88843nce6bd816b507f423@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <a174d0600611272354s6399e52avd527625ee7f7b1e0@mail.gmail.com> References: <a174d0600611272354s6399e52avd527625ee7f7b1e0@mail.gmail.com>
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FYI: this issue is "solved". I applied this patch (URL below) to the 5.3sources and built a kernel with an re driver that can detect the card. It seems to be working at gigabit speeds. Out of curiosity would someone who knows CVS better than I do kindly tell me what version of FreeBSD this patch has been integrated to? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-October/056317.html Thx, Scott On 11/27/06, Scott Gasch <scott.gasch@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card (version 3) > working under freebsd 5.3. This appears to be an RTL8169S based card. > > When I build a kernel with the re device (and miibus) enabled, the card is > not detected. I also tried building a GENERIC kernel to sanity check my > config -- the card is not detected with the GENERIC kernel either. I > verified that the if_re.c file is being compiled / included in the kernel. > > The LINT config for 5.3 _does_not_ include "device re" which I find > strange. The man page for re says it was introduced in 5.2 so I think it > should be here? > > I tried disabling ACPI support in the loader menu but this did not result > in the detection of the card. > > I tried booting a 6.1 kernel on the machine and it _does_ detect the > device. Is this likely due to driver code differences or something else in > the 6.x kernels? I'd rather not upgrade this box to 6.x yet but I could > certainly bring it up to 5.5. > > Thx, > Scott > >
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