Date: Mon, 23 Feb 2009 08:23:29 +0100 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Fernando_Apestegu=EDa?= <fernando.apesteguia@gmail.com> To: pyunyh@gmail.com Cc: FreeBSD Hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: FBSD 7.0-p3 NIC driver problem (Realtek) Message-ID: <1bd550a00902222323o1580a434mc883b94f26aad74f@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20090223002440.GA48134@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <1bd550a00902200825w3f225d0at99cfd1c6bb63ea0@mail.gmail.com> <20090221015518.GA44336@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr> <1bd550a00902220915p276b8b61m4b757373a443348a@mail.gmail.com> <20090223002440.GA48134@michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr>
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On 2/23/09, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 06:15:55PM +0100, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: > > On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:25:26PM +0100, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote: > > >> Hi all, > > >> > > >> I copy here the mail I sent to freebsd-questions cause I didn't get any answers: > > >> > > >> > > >> Yesterday I updated to 7.1-p3 on AMD64 arch. > > >> > > >> Since then, the NIC is not detected anymore. ifconfig doesn't show it > > >> and I can't connect to the Internet. > > >> > > >> There were well-known issues with this NIC model before, > > >> (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2008-11/msg00299.html) > > >> but the weird thing is that it seemed to be fine with > > >> 7.1-RELEASE and newer till this -p3. > > >> > > >> It doesn't recognize the card in 4/5 boot sequences (really annoying). > > >> > > >> Anybody with this problem? > > > > > > I'm not sure you're suffering from MAC power saving issue of > > > RealTek PCIe controller. Sometimes re(4) used to fail to wakeup the > > > controller which in turn resulted in 'no driver' for the > > > controller. If this is the case you can see "MII without any phy!" > > > message in dmesg output. > > > > You are right, I see that message. > > > > > r188358(cvs if_re.c 1.95.2.40) should fix the issue so please try > > > latest 7-stable or copy if_re.c, if_rlreg.h and if_rl.c from HEAD/ > > > 7-stable to your 7.1-RELEASE box and rebuild kernel. > > > If you still see the same issue please let me know. > > > > I copied the files and restarted my computer 5 times and the NIC was > > present in all of them. > > Glad to hear that. > > > I will watch this issue and I will let you know if I notice more problems. > > > > Thanks so much for your help. > > > > No problem. > > > > > > > Btw, stable@ is more appropriate list for this type of issues. > > > > Even if I'm not using -STABLE? > > > > Yes, you're not using CURRENT. OK, I'll keep that in mind. >
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