From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 20 22:51:13 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D116016A420 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:51:13 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael@gargantuan.com) Received: from phoenix.gargantuan.com (srv01.lak.lwxdatacom.net [24.73.171.238]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2FA9443D69 for ; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:50:37 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from michael@gargantuan.com) Received: from localhost (localhost.gargantuan.com [127.0.0.1]) by spamassassin-injector (Postfix) with SMTP id 454EE78D; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:50:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by phoenix.gargantuan.com (Postfix, from userid 1001) id C8147571; Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:50:29 -0400 (EDT) Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 18:50:29 -0400 From: "Michael W. Oliver" To: Dmitry Mityugov Message-ID: <20050820225029.GF5673@gargantuan.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dmitry Mityugov , freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org References: <42F93030.2050509@thesnodgrass.com> <10303.145.248.192.30.1123662749.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <57189.145.248.192.30.1123665610.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-WWW-URL: http://michael.gargantuan.com X-GPG-PGP-Public-Key: http://michael.gargantuan.com/gnupg/pubkey.asc X-GPG-PGP-Fingerprint: 2694 0179 AE3F BFAE 0916 0BF5 B16B FBAB C5FA A3C9 X-Home-Phone: +1-863-816-8091 X-Mobile-Phone: +1-863-738-2334 X-Mailing-Address0: 8008 Apache Lane X-Mailing-Address1: Lakeland, FL X-Mailing-Address2: 33810-2172 X-Mailing-Address3: United States of America X-Guide-Questions: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html X-Guide-Netiquette: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i X-Spam-DCC: CTc-dcc2: phoenix.gargantuan.com 1031; Body=1 Fuz1=1 Fuz2=1 X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.0.3 (2005-04-27) on phoenix.gargantuan.com X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-106.4 required=5.0 tests=ALL_TRUSTED,AWL,BAYES_00, USER_IN_WHITELIST autolearn=ham version=3.0.3 X-Spam-Pyzor: Reported 0 times. Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Aug 2005 22:51:14 -0000 --HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On 2005-08-20T09:50:53+0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel wrote: >>>> Regrettably, i always encountered this problem. I spoke about that >>>> since the middle of 2004, and didn't really receive feedback on this. >>>> I try a lot of things but none worked better than the other. >>>> To not forget about it, i filled a bug report on this particular >>>> problem, see PR kern/80005 for more details. >>>> The last thing i want to give another try is to upgrade to RELENG_6, >>>> since i currently follow the RELENG_5 branch. But i am not *very* >>>> confident about that... >>>> Sorry not to have better answer to give you. >>> IIRC, I have a RTL8169S-based D-Link gigabit network card at home and >>> it works with FreeBSD just fine. >> Yes, i know it simply works for a lot of users. It doesn't mean that it >> is the case for all users... i am of those. >=20 > Just realized that with ACPI disabled, this card does not work with > FreeBSD 5.4 (at least in my machine), with ACPI enabled - it does. > Hope this information will help somebody. I have RTL8169S in my laptop, and have seen the same up/down/up/down etc. behavior that is noted in PR 80005. I am running 7-CURRENT about a day old. I switched from my custom kernel back to GENERIC and the problem went away, so I started adding things from my custom config file into GENERIC to see what finally broke it, and it turned out to be: options ACPI_DEBUG Just thought that I would mention it... re0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1000 re0: port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0x= d0008800-0xd00088ff irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci0 miibus0: on re0 rgephy0: on miibus0 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000b= aseTX-FDX, auto re0: bpf attached re0: Ethernet address: 00:90:f5:32:35:9f re0: [GIANT-LOCKED] --=20 Mike Oliver [see complete headers for contact information] --HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFDB7O1sWv7q8X6o8kRAt8SAJ9Zk5ZZSt5DcRyvSflKWsLHn3/9VQCgxOYO B16Gdsa5GHhZCp5QhhRcd0I= =47Kx -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --HWvPVVuAAfuRc6SZ--