From owner-freebsd-current Wed Feb 19 16:17:38 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA5EC37B405 for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:17:36 -0800 (PST) Received: from silence.diskiller.net (CPE-144-136-184-37.sa.bigpond.net.au [144.136.184.37]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1CFF143FBF for ; Wed, 19 Feb 2003 16:17:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from diskiller@diskiller.net) Received: from diskiller.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by silence.diskiller.net (8.12.6/8.12.6) with SMTP id h1K0HSqW002951 for ; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:47:30 +1030 (CST) (envelope-from diskiller@diskiller.net) From: Martin Minkus Received: from 203.32.189.100 (SquirrelMail authenticated user diskiller) by diskiller.dyndns.org with HTTP; Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:47:30 +1030 (CST) Message-ID: <34163.203.32.189.100.1045700250.squirrel@diskiller.dyndns.org> Date: Thu, 20 Feb 2003 10:47:30 +1030 (CST) Subject: Realtek 8139B detected To: X-Priority: 3 Importance: Normal X-Mailer: SquirrelMail (version 1.2.10) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG During boot, i get the following: rl0: port 0x6100-0x61ff mem 0xe1001000-0xe10010ff ir q 10 at device 14.0 on pci0 rl0: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode rl0: Ethernet address: 00:00:21:f2:a5:47 miibus0: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus0 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl1: port 0x6200-0x62ff mem 0xe1000000-0xe10000ff ir q 12 at device 15.0 on pci0 rl1: Realtek 8139B detected. Warning, this may be unstable in autoselect mode rl1: Ethernet address: 00:00:21:f4:d8:7d miibus1: on rl1 rlphy1: on miibus1 rlphy1: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto ed0: port 0x6300-0x631f irq 5 at device 16. 0 on pci0 ed0: address 00:40:05:3b:eb:c9, type NE2000 (16 bit) And i basically find that my realtek network cards are useless. I can manually set them using ifconfig to use 100baseTX, etc, but they are NOT very happy in 100mbit mode, nor will they work in full duplex. (This evidence is supported by me looking at the LEDs that are illuminated on the switch). In FreeBSD 4.0 to 4.7-STABLE this has never been a problem. Why is the driver broken in 5.0? We are going backwards now? ;) I simply cannot make any realtek cards work. My only other cards are crappy old NE2000 compatibles (ISA's!) that are laying around, and haven't been used in a few years. And yeah, they are only 10mbit :/ What is going on? I really want to start upgrading to 5.0 (There are no other issues, and some people i know have been running 5.0-CURRENT ever since work on 5.0 began). Martin. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Martin Minkus Geac Enterprise Solutions 208 Greenhill Road, Eastwood 5063, South Australia Tel: +61 8 8372 6111 / Fax: +61 8 8372 6196 Email: martin.minkus@geac.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message