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Date:      Sun, 7 Dec 2003 13:15:39 +0900
From:      horio shoichi <bugsgrief@bugsgrief.net>
To:        den <moreau@myrealbox.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 8139 unstable?
Message-ID:  <20031207.041540.aceba533c4516d83.10.0.3.9@bugsgrief.net>
In-Reply-To: <3FD0576B.9020001@myrealbox.com>
References:  <000001c3bafc$38a92540$5201a8c0@intranet.absol.co.za> <20031205072109.GH77051@wantadilla.lemis.com> <3FD0576B.9020001@myrealbox.com>

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On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:01:15 +0300
den <moreau@myrealbox.com> wrote:
> Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
> 
> >On Friday,  5 December 2003 at  8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>Hi,
> >>
> >>I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a
> >>Realtek 8139 network card.
> >>
> >>The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my
> >>network card stops working for no reason.  Rebooting the box fixes this
> >>for a while, but the it starts again.
> >>    
> >>
> >
> >There have been reports of instabilities with the 8139.  I don't know
> >if it's really the hardware to blame or the driver, but the
> >documentation for the hardware is apparently so terrible that it's
> >difficult to say.
> >
> >I'm using an 8139 in a number of places, including (currently) my main
> >server machine.  The switch notes a large number of errors under load,
> >and I'm thinking of changing to a different card the next time I have
> >to reboot.
> >
> >Rather than reboot your machine, you'll probably find that the
> >following sequence unwedges the card:
> >
> >  ifconfig rl0 down
> >  ifconfig rl0 up
> >
> >I had this in a cron job at one point.
> >
> >Greg
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> I have had the problem with this card on FreeBSD 5.0.
> Problem was resolved by recompiling of kernel with new drivers from Realtec.
> It seems there is many modification of 8139 chipset that have a postfix 
> ( "D", "C",...).
> When I choose driver that match my chipset all become ok.
> I don't know whether this driver was included in 5.1, so this is only 
> assumption, and it doesn't help to you.
> 
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I found ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8139abcd8130810xseries/freebsd-8139(110).zip
via www.realtek.com.tw, which is for FreeBSD.

However, it is for 4.5.

Could you give me (us) your reference to 5.0 (or 5.x) ?



horio shoichi



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