Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:22 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "j snod" <freebsd@thesnodgrass.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8100S on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier. Message-ID: <64459.192.168.1.20.1123701682.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <42FA3684.3050807@thesnodgrass.com> References: <42F93030.2050509@thesnodgrass.com> <10303.145.248.192.30.1123662749.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <b7052e1e050810020041527145@mail.gmail.com> <42FA28EF.2080502@thesnodgrass.com> <42FA3684.3050807@thesnodgrass.com>
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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. >> I did some more research, it appears that the Abit AA8-DuraMax actually >> uses the RealTek RTL8100S chipset, not the 8169. >> >> The hardware compatibility list for 5.4 shows support for the 8110S >> chipset, but not my specific motherboard. Perhaps it is a new chip >> revision? >> >> I tried the patch by Dag-Erling Smørgrav from a similar thread ( >> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011022.html >> ) but no luck. > I just tried a clean install of 6.0 Beta 2, and still the same problem, > but now with additional error messages: > > re0: link state changed to UP > re0: link state changed to DOWN > re0: link state changed to UP > re0: link state changed to DOWN > > Over and over and over, whenever the LED on the network jack blinks. > > Further research indicated that ACPI could be a problem, so I disabled > it by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints. This > produced a different error: > > re0: 2 link states coalesced > re0: link state changed to DOWN > re0: 2 link states coalesced > re0: link state changed to DOWN > > Over and over on every LED blink. Same behaviour here: RELENG_5 or RELENG_6, with or without ACPI support. -- -jpeg.
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