Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:15:02 +0200 From: Lukas Razik <freebsd@razik.name> To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Cc: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Message-ID: <200809051315.02827.freebsd@razik.name> In-Reply-To: <20080904181549.GA24166@icarus.home.lan> References: <200808110000.58666.freebsd@razik.name> <200809041945.08368.freebsd@razik.name> <20080904181549.GA24166@icarus.home.lan>
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Hello Jeremy, thanks for your always fast answer! On Thursday 04 September 2008 20:15:49 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:45:00PM +0200, Lukas Razik wrote: > > So I also would like to try more current 7.0-STABLE-200808 but there's > > still no new snapshot for the amd64 architecture on your ftp server: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ > > Are there no relevant changes done to amd64? > > Oh, there are many changes, but the snapshots for August were suspended > for i386 and amd64 due to a cpio vs. GNU cpio problem. Do not bother > trying the snapshots from July either, as they will fail during > installation (cpio problems; the bin/base/etc. archives are broken > and will spit out millions of errors on expansion). > > The only place right now which has newer snapshots (September), which > should work fine: > > http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ This source is very nice! It's too bad that there are no mirrors... :-) I've tried the newest snapshot and as you told it works fine! :-) My onboard NICs are recognized now and I can use them without any problems. It's interesting because I've seen no changes in the last days here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c However, this issue is solved for me and also another one which I haven't mentioned yet. Because when I wanted to install 7.0-RELEASE from CD then there came the FreeBSD boot menu with a timer which runs from 10 to 0 seconds, you know... But there was a bug in the past: The timer didn't work (only the cursor under the time value "10" has blinked very fast) and I had to play with my [ESC], [SPACE], [ENTER] keys to push the boot process... Now in 7.0-RELENG_7-20080905-JPSNAP the timer also works fine. BTW: As I wrote you some weeks ago, I wanted to buy a HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 card, run some benchmarks under FreeBSD and tell you the results. I have the card for some hours now but it isn't recognized by 7.0-RELENG_7-20080905- JPSNAP... I will start a new thread for this issue but at first I want to test it with the newest RELENG_7 kernel from CVS... Regards and Many Thanks again for your help! Lukas
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