From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Jan 5 01:40:11 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 30A811065676 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:40:10 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jhelfman@e-e.com) Received: from mail.experts-exchange.com (mail.experts-exchange.com [64.156.132.251]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D52088FC08 for ; Tue, 5 Jan 2010 01:40:10 +0000 (UTC) Received: from eggman.experts-exchange.com (unknown [72.29.180.81]) by mail.experts-exchange.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9CE644A2E6E3; Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:32:50 -0800 (PST) Received: by eggman.experts-exchange.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 04 Jan 2010 17:38:50 -0800 Date: Mon, 4 Jan 2010 17:38:50 -0800 From: Jason To: Ryan Coleman Message-ID: <20100105013848.GD49101@eggman.experts-exchange.com> References: <3F26F8AA-D320-49F8-8DA2-9FC4EE80398C@me.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F26F8AA-D320-49F8-8DA2-9FC4EE80398C@me.com> X-Operating-System: FreeBSD 7.2-RELEASE-p4 X-Living-The-Dream: I love the SLO Life! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RealTek 8168 issues X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 05 Jan 2010 01:40:11 -0000 I worked with a similar patch for the bce driver, and received the same issue. >From what I've seen, the patch would be for the "mii" device for this error. After patching mii, the error and issues were resolved. On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:28:36PM -0600, Ryan Coleman thus spake: >I have a RealTek 816x NIC in my FreeBSD 8.0 box. I did a full system install last night and at 2AM the NIC gave out. Now it's crapping out in minutes instead of hours. > >When I run /etc/rc.d/netif restart I get the normal processing data about my NICs and then this: >re0: reset never completed! >re0: PHY write failed >re0: PHY write failed >re0: PHY write failed >re0: PHY write failed >re0: PHY write failed > >And it proceeds to bring lo0 and re0 back up, but re0 has it's listed static IP but is not discoverable on the network. > >A reboot can temporarily fix this but I want to avoid rebooting every 4-6 hours automatically (for obvious reasons). > >I've found patches referencing 7.1 but not 8.0. > >I can post more details if you need, just point me where you need me to look for them. > >-- >Ryan >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >