From owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Aug 10 19:21:29 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 CEBB916A41F for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:21:29 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from smtp.thilelli.net (smtp.thilelli.net [213.41.129.161]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 38D5743D45 for ; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:21:28 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jpeg@thilelli.net) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id AD9005C7A; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:27 +0200 (CEST) Received: from bento.thilelli.net ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (bento.thilelli.net [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 79755-04-2; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:23 +0200 (CEST) Received: from webmail.thilelli.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by bento.thilelli.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id E5C035C79; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:22 +0200 (CEST) Received: from 192.168.1.20 (SquirrelMail authenticated user jgabel) by webmail.thilelli.net with HTTP; Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:22 +0200 (CEST) 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> <42FA28EF.2080502@thesnodgrass.com> <42FA3684.3050807@thesnodgrass.com> Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 21:21:22 +0200 (CEST) From: "Julien Gabel" To: "j snod" User-Agent: SquirrelMail/1.4.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain;charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Importance: Normal X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at thilelli.net Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek RTL8100S on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier. X-BeenThere: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: jpeg@thilelli.net List-Id: Technical Discussions relating to FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 19:21:29 -0000 >>>> 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.