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Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.
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>> 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.

-- 
-jpeg.