From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 28 01:16:15 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C183F16A503 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:16:15 +0000 (GMT) Received: from khan.acc.umu.se (khan.acc.umu.se [130.239.18.139]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 677FF43D4C for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:16:15 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from bucht@acc.umu.se) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amavisd-new (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7F670D300 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:16:11 +0200 (MEST) Received: from montezuma.acc.umu.se (montezuma.acc.umu.se [130.239.18.147]) by khan.acc.umu.se (Postfix) with ESMTP id E1719D286 for ; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:16:07 +0200 (MEST) Received: by montezuma.acc.umu.se (Postfix, from userid 23835) id A74C41BCC3; Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:16:07 +0200 (MEST) Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 03:16:07 +0200 From: Johan Bucht To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Message-ID: <20040728011607.GA28046@montezuma.acc.umu.se> Mail-Followup-To: Johan Bucht , freebsd-net@freebsd.org References: <20040728005115.GA27536@montezuma.acc.umu.se> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20040728005115.GA27536@montezuma.acc.umu.se> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at acc.umu.se Subject: Re: re(4) problems (realtek 8169S) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 28 Jul 2004 01:16:15 -0000 On 28 July, 2004 - Johan Bucht wrote: > > Hi all, I recently bought a Level1 Realtek 8169S, 10/100/1000mbit PCI > card. > However I can't get it to work properly as I frequently get checksum > errors as well as erronous packet lengths. Unsetting the RXCSUM & TXCSUM > options seems to help out but I get timeouts on my connections once > every few minutes. > > The card shows up (misidentified) in dmesg as "RealTek 8110S Single-chip > Gigabit Ethernet" but shows up correctly using pciconf -lv. > > Setting the speed doesn't seem to make a difference and changing cable > or nic on the other end doesn't affect it either. So my guess is either > bad silicon or driver problem. Anyone with similar problems using 8169S > hardware? > -- > /Johan Bucht > bucht@acc.umu.se Some additional information, I'm running 5.2.1 btw. pciconf -lv gives the following information re0@pci0:10:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816910ec chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' device = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter' class = network subclass = ethernet this is what shows up in dmesg re0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe3000000-0xe30000ff irq 1 2 at device 10.0 on pci0 re0: Ethernet address: 00:50:fc:ec:5c:5b miibus1: on re0 rgephy0: on miibus1 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto -- /Johan Bucht bucht@acc.umu.se