Date: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 18:28:00 -0500 From: Gary Corcoran <gcorcoran@rcn.com> To: Gleb Smirnoff <glebius@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Emmanuel Duros <emmanuel.duros@udcast.com>, Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: re0: 2 link states coalesced. Message-ID: <43DEA100.2050200@rcn.com> In-Reply-To: <56038.145.248.192.4.1138617567.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> 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>
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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
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