From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Aug 14 11:08:41 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 06CDA16A4E6 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:08:41 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from py-out-1112.google.com (py-out-1112.google.com [64.233.166.178]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 91E8543D76 for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:08:30 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: by py-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id c59so1196013pyc for ; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:08:30 -0700 (PDT) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version:content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=fT2roDkjDiJSnK3jGNsvtmEYKJtXh6LIDHjkIsqW4jmOMWjiCK+BFb59lX/i9WCufRg2R4wAjOSHWIQt+j0oBgXUIqIdghpQFt9HgUORQV4FdrFNe2t9UL5O4pHtCosEtuMm1garjh9dpryJFNE2JpQsWwTAR9AK3MkCpXTOiRs= Received: by 10.35.108.12 with SMTP id k12mr13049650pym; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr ( [211.53.35.84]) by mx.gmail.com with ESMTP id 38sm848227nza.2006.08.14.04.08.27; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 04:08:29 -0700 (PDT) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (localhost.cdnetworks.co.kr [127.0.0.1]) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id k7EB9xLL038688 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:09:59 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: (from yongari@localhost) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id k7EB9x0c038687; Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:09:59 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 20:09:59 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon To: Dinesh Nair Message-ID: <20060814110959.GD36904@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <44E040CF.9080205@alphaque.com> <20060814103946.GC36904@cdnetworks.co.kr> <44E056BE.4080104@alphaque.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <44E056BE.4080104@alphaque.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1 X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 14 Aug 2006 11:08:41 -0000 On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:55:58PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote: > > On 08/14/06 18:39 Pyun YongHyeon said the following: > >Recent changes from wpaul disabled re_diag() routine by default so it > > i disabled re_diag() in /usr/src/sys/dev/if_re.c, and that caused the > kernel trap to go away, as per my original email. also, see my followup > email (to myself) in which i disabled the check for the 8139C+, forcing it > to be recognized by the rl driver and this seems to make it work. > AFAIK 8139C+ provides 8139 compatible mode which doesn't use descriptor based transfer mechanism. As you know this mode really sucks and need much more CPU power to saturate the link. So I don't think it's good idea to make rl(4) serve 8139C+. > >However I've seen one user reported re(4) breakage on stable. > >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027356.html > > that seems to be exactly the problem i initially observed as well. > > >Please try latest stable and show your results. If it still does not > >work please let us know. I don't have 8139C+ based NICs so it would be > > i am on a recent stable, circa two weeks ago as well. have there been > significant changes to the re driver since ? > Yes. What `ident /boot/kernel/if_re.ko` shows? -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon