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X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.17 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:01:43 -0000 > > Are you sure it's Realtek's fault as opposed to a bug in FreeBSD's re driver? from Dennis Glatting: > Nope. All I can say, over the past couple of years, I have had > consistent problems with re under FreeBSD and zip with Intel. > That same MB (A78M-M) under CentOS 6.5 had problems with the RealTek > too. That system is powered off for the next couple of days and I am > unsure of current settings. IIRC, I had better luck with FreeBSD than > CentOS with this MB. > I have another MB, a MSI 990FXA-GD80, that didn't like the RealTek > (8111E) under CentOS 6.5 so I plugged in an Intel. Worked fine then. My luck with re driver has been all-or-nothing. If it connected, no further problems with the driver. Otherwise, at least in FreeBSD, re produced memory instability after failing to connect, and I could get an unexpected, unprovoked system crash much later. So I added to /boot/loader.conf hint.re.0.disabled="1" But other motherboards with Ethernet recognized by re driver give different results; some may even fail in NetBSD but work with FreeBSD. I use DragonFlyBSD and OpenBSD dd'ed to USB stick only for test purposes; not sufficiently compatible with my hardware, especially the hard drive setup with GPT. Tom