From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Jan 30 23:27:43 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 7ABC316A422; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:27:43 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gcorcoran@rcn.com) Received: from smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net (smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net [207.172.4.62]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4EBE843D64; Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:27:36 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gcorcoran@rcn.com) Received: from 207-172-241-254.c3-0.tlg-ubr1.atw-tlg.pa.cable.rcn.com (HELO [10.56.78.130]) ([207.172.241.254]) by smtp02.mrf.mail.rcn.net with ESMTP; 30 Jan 2006 18:27:32 -0500 X-IronPort-AV: i="4.01,236,1136178000"; d="scan'208"; a="200727456:sNHT224058246" Message-ID: <43DEA100.2050200@rcn.com> Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:28:00 -0500 From: Gary Corcoran User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Gleb Smirnoff References: <43D69B06.4060208@nieser.net> <62280.192.168.1.12.1138140329.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> <20060130100906.GA83922@FreeBSD.org> <56038.145.248.192.4.1138617567.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <56038.145.248.192.4.1138617567.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Emmanuel Duros , Hans Nieser , freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re0: 2 link states coalesced. 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: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 23:27:43 -0000 Julien Gabel wrote: >>>I filled one a year ago, for the very same problem (encountered for two >>>years now). See Problem Report kern/80005 for more information. I >>>think that another user (Emmanuel Duros) tried to speak with Realtek on >>>that point, not sure if there is feedback on it though... >>> >>>Sorry not to have better news. > > >>Is this NIC available outside of Clevo D41EV laptop? As PCI or PCMCIA >>card? > > > As far as i know, people who encounter this behaviour all use an > onboard ethernet adapter. Emmanuel Duros with an MSI motherboard, > Hans Nieser using a Clevo D41EV and me with a D480V (also known as D47) > and based on a SiS M648FX 963 chipset. I also have this problem, with a Gigabyte (brand) motheboard. It's very annoying waiting for the "random" try which finally gets the link to come up (and once in a while seems to never come up). Windows2000 on the same machine has no problem. However, I have a datapoint which might give somebody a clue as to the problem. Windows2000 was also doing the link-up/link-down dance when I had the ethernet cable accidentally connected to the uplink-only port of an old 100Mb hub (yes hub). Since it's a gigabit interface, I'm presuming that the Realtek has the modern auto-uplink feature which tries to figure out if a cable "crossover" is needed. Perhaps the FreeBSD driver for the Realtek sets some bad default for the phy ??? > I don't really know if there is a PCI or PCMCIA version of this adapter, > sorry. Since Realtek ethernet controllers are "popular" (with manufacturers) because of their low cost, I'd expect many cheap gigabit PCI cards to use them. Unfortunately I can't give you a specific brand (and often the cheap cards seem to have no discernible name on them anyway :( ). Gary