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From: Dmitry Mityugov <dmitry.mityugov@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.
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On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel <jpeg@thilelli.net> 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.
>=20
> To not forget about it, i filled a bug report on this particular problem,
> see PR kern/80005 for more details.
>=20
> 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...
>=20
> 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.

--=20
Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
I ignore all messages with confidentiality statements

"We live less by imagination than despite it" - Rockwell Kent, "N by E"