From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 5 11:15:08 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D22621065679; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@razik.name) Received: from ms4-1.1blu.de (ms4-1.1blu.de [89.202.0.34]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6ABBB8FC15; Fri, 5 Sep 2008 11:15:08 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from freebsd@razik.name) Received: from [78.50.92.114] (helo=consystor.localnet) by ms4-1.1blu.de with esmtpa (Exim 4.50) id 1KbZHL-00007q-J0; Fri, 05 Sep 2008 13:15:03 +0200 From: Lukas Razik To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 5 Sep 2008 13:15:02 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.51 (KDE/4.0.4; ; ) References: <200808110000.58666.freebsd@razik.name> <200809041945.08368.freebsd@razik.name> <20080904181549.GA24166@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <20080904181549.GA24166@icarus.home.lan> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200809051315.02827.freebsd@razik.name> X-Con-Id: 21979 X-Originating-IP: 78.50.92.114 Cc: Jeremy Chadwick Subject: Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 05 Sep 2008 11:15:08 -0000 Hello Jeremy, thanks for your always fast answer! On Thursday 04 September 2008 20:15:49 Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Thu, Sep 04, 2008 at 07:45:00PM +0200, Lukas Razik wrote: > > So I also would like to try more current 7.0-STABLE-200808 but there's > > still no new snapshot for the amd64 architecture on your ftp server: > > ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/ > > Are there no relevant changes done to amd64? > > Oh, there are many changes, but the snapshots for August were suspended > for i386 and amd64 due to a cpio vs. GNU cpio problem. Do not bother > trying the snapshots from July either, as they will fail during > installation (cpio problems; the bin/base/etc. archives are broken > and will spit out millions of errors on expansion). > > The only place right now which has newer snapshots (September), which > should work fine: > > http://pub.allbsd.org/FreeBSD-snapshots/ This source is very nice! It's too bad that there are no mirrors... :-) I've tried the newest snapshot and as you told it works fine! :-) My onboard NICs are recognized now and I can use them without any problems. It's interesting because I've seen no changes in the last days here: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c However, this issue is solved for me and also another one which I haven't mentioned yet. Because when I wanted to install 7.0-RELEASE from CD then there came the FreeBSD boot menu with a timer which runs from 10 to 0 seconds, you know... But there was a bug in the past: The timer didn't work (only the cursor under the time value "10" has blinked very fast) and I had to play with my [ESC], [SPACE], [ENTER] keys to push the boot process... Now in 7.0-RELENG_7-20080905-JPSNAP the timer also works fine. BTW: As I wrote you some weeks ago, I wanted to buy a HighPoint RocketRAID 3120 card, run some benchmarks under FreeBSD and tell you the results. I have the card for some hours now but it isn't recognized by 7.0-RELENG_7-20080905- JPSNAP... I will start a new thread for this issue but at first I want to test it with the newest RELENG_7 kernel from CVS... Regards and Many Thanks again for your help! Lukas