From owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Mar 21 06:16:25 2007 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3339D16A41B for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:16:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1smout1.broadpark.no (osl1smout1.broadpark.no [80.202.4.58]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id E78F813C45B for ; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:16:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no) Received: from osl1sminn1.broadpark.no ([80.202.4.59]) by osl1smout1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with ESMTP id <0JF800JWMPF7VJ50@osl1smout1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:19 +0100 (CET) Received: from kg-work.kg4.no ([80.202.72.184]) by osl1sminn1.broadpark.no (Sun Java System Messaging Server 6.1 HotFix 0.05 (built Oct 21 2004)) with SMTP id <0JF800GYNPF7IMP7@osl1sminn1.broadpark.no> for freebsd-stable@freebsd.org; Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:19 +0100 (CET) Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 07:16:19 +0100 From: Torfinn Ingolfsen X-Face: "t9w2,-X@O^I`jVW\sonI3.,36KBLZE*AL[y9lL[PyFD*r_S:dIL9c[8Y>V42R0"!"yb_zN,f#%.[PYYNq; m"_0v; ~rUM2Yy!zmkh)3&U|u!=T(zyv,MHJv"nDH>OJ`t(@mil461d_B'Uo|'nMwlKe0Mv=kvV?Nh@>Hb<3s_z2jYgZhPb@?Wi^x1a~Hplz1.zH In-reply-to: <23548459.691174449417873.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Message-id: <20070321071619.b12293db.torfinn.ingolfsen@broadpark.no> MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Sylpheed 2.3.1 (GTK+ 2.10.11; i386-portbld-freebsd6.2) Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT References: <20070320225622.GA98185@webmail.home.brasapen.org> <23548459.691174449417873.JavaMail.root@ly.sdf.com> Subject: Re: interface re0 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 21 Mar 2007 06:16:25 -0000 On Tue, 20 Mar 2007 20:56:57 -0700 (PDT) Tom Samplonius wrote: > I recommend you do a rebose boot (which will print the PCI id of > the card), and attach it to a PR. Perhaps the re maintainer can > hack the driver for a special exception for your NIC. 'pciconf -lv' should laso give the OP the necessary PCI id etc. Then it would smart of him to use that information in a search (web and mailing lists) with 'FreeBSD' to see if anyone have seen this and perhaps fixed it already. > But em cards (Intel Pro1000GT Desktop) cards are very cheap, and do > work. Why buy RealTek? RealTek has been outputting overly > simplistic hardware since the beginning. If there was a corner that > could be cut when building a NIC, a RealTek engineer thought of it > first. Well, in my case, because RealTek in most cases are cheaper than anything else, and because of availability. Availability varies across the world you know. FWIW, I use several RealTek chips and cards (none Gigabit), have done so for years, and they work for me. YMMV. -- Regards, Torfinn Ingolfsen, Norway