Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:18:26 -0700 From: Chuck Swiger <cswiger@mac.com> To: "Tobias P. Santos" <tobias@netconsultoria.com.br> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rl driver and 4GB RAM Message-ID: <216C6008-6F46-494B-80EE-36EE8F84E18F@mac.com> In-Reply-To: <45350DAB.3020408@netconsultoria.com.br> References: <45350DAB.3020408@netconsultoria.com.br>
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On Oct 17, 2006, at 10:06 AM, Tobias P. Santos wrote: > We recently bought a Dell Server with 4GB RAM. > Then, we installed FreeBSD 6.1/i386 but it only detects 3.5GB of > RAM. So we recompiled the kernel with PAE option and now we have > 4GB available. It might be reasonable to simply live with getting 3.5GB of RAM out of the system. > Onboard NIC (em0) works fine both with GENERIC and PAE kernel, but > as we need a second 100 Mbit NIC, we plugged a Realtek 8139D board, > but it doesn't work with PAE kernel (GENERIC is fine). I'm not too surprised-- that Realtek chipset is among the worst 10/100 NICs on the market. Bin it. > If you do a tcpdump, you can see packets and arp requests on the > network, but we can't ping anything. It seems that we can only > "listen" on rl0 but not "speak". Once we reboot the server with > GENERIC kernel, the NIC works fine. > We also tried 5.4/amd64, but the behaviour is the same as we have > with PAE. > > Any suggestions? Could it be a driver related problem, so if we > change to another NIC it may work? Oh, yes-- try adding an Intel 10/100 fxp NIC, or maybe a DEC 21x4x "Tulip" dc NIC instead. -- -Chuck
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