From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Oct 17 17:18:50 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 67BA416A40F for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:18:50 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from smtpout.mac.com (smtpout.mac.com [17.250.248.173]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3F37243D93 for ; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:18:39 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from cswiger@mac.com) Received: from mac.com (smtpin05-en2 [10.13.10.150]) by smtpout.mac.com (Xserve/8.12.11/smtpout03/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9HHKNYA005203; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:20:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [17.214.13.96] (a17-214-13-96.apple.com [17.214.13.96]) (authenticated bits=0) by mac.com (Xserve/smtpin05/MantshX 4.0) with ESMTP id k9HHIZEC023068; Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:18:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <45350DAB.3020408@netconsultoria.com.br> References: <45350DAB.3020408@netconsultoria.com.br> Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v752.2) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; delsp=yes; format=flowed Message-Id: <216C6008-6F46-494B-80EE-36EE8F84E18F@mac.com> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit From: Chuck Swiger Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 10:18:26 -0700 To: "Tobias P. Santos" X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.752.2) X-Brightmail-Tracker: AAAAAA== X-Brightmail-scanned: yes Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: rl driver and 4GB RAM X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 17:18:50 -0000 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