From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Nov 28 17:14:33 2006 Return-Path: X-Original-To: questions@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [69.147.83.52]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 88A1616A51F for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:14:33 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from scott.gasch@gmail.com) Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.228]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DB6B43D9F for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:10:53 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from scott.gasch@gmail.com) Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id s18so1896779wxc for ; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:10:49 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:references; b=Gg/ShJXOTIP7UsYMniy1b6b5BQquqgzuTlSaGqTemyNT3msHX1aTWCR1sEXbu53WhHDl3/bJOqqkLTAh1MwUIq5oPefIiW0bV285RkcdClZmuLK55LZyRIyRf6JuJ+XoUrg7YmPbku5ba1CSE7h1gAZp2Jnf035GopW2TZ/8Af4= Received: by 10.70.84.6 with SMTP id h6mr1979297wxb.1164733849343; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:10:49 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.124.12 with HTTP; Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:10:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 09:10:49 -0800 From: "Scott Gasch" To: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 References: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: Subject: Re: re driver in 5.3? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 28 Nov 2006 17:14:33 -0000 FYI: this issue is "solved". I applied this patch (URL below) to the 5.3sources and built a kernel with an re driver that can detect the card. It seems to be working at gigabit speeds. Out of curiosity would someone who knows CVS better than I do kindly tell me what version of FreeBSD this patch has been integrated to? http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-current/2005-October/056317.html Thx, Scott On 11/27/06, Scott Gasch wrote: > > Hi, > > I'm trying to get a linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card (version 3) > working under freebsd 5.3. This appears to be an RTL8169S based card. > > When I build a kernel with the re device (and miibus) enabled, the card is > not detected. I also tried building a GENERIC kernel to sanity check my > config -- the card is not detected with the GENERIC kernel either. I > verified that the if_re.c file is being compiled / included in the kernel. > > The LINT config for 5.3 _does_not_ include "device re" which I find > strange. The man page for re says it was introduced in 5.2 so I think it > should be here? > > I tried disabling ACPI support in the loader menu but this did not result > in the detection of the card. > > I tried booting a 6.1 kernel on the machine and it _does_ detect the > device. Is this likely due to driver code differences or something else in > the 6.x kernels? I'd rather not upgrade this box to 6.x yet but I could > certainly bring it up to 5.5. > > Thx, > Scott > >