Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2008 04:14:04 -0700 From: Jeremy Chadwick <koitsu@FreeBSD.org> To: Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net> Cc: pyunyh@gmail.com, freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC Message-ID: <20080901111404.GA4765@icarus.home.lan> In-Reply-To: <48BBCC93.40309@bah.homeip.net> References: <200808110000.58666.freebsd@razik.name> <48A317D8.5070702@bah.homeip.net> <48B78DE0.8070808@bah.homeip.net> <20080829060606.GC35562@cdnetworks.co.kr> <48B7A6AD.9020509@bah.homeip.net> <20080901073210.GE48568@cdnetworks.co.kr> <48BBCC93.40309@bah.homeip.net>
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On Mon, Sep 01, 2008 at 01:05:55PM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
> Pyun YongHyeon skrev:
>
>> > > > Just for the sake of it, I did an upgrade to 7.0-STABLE on 2008-08-20.
>> > > > That killed my network card RTL8111B.
>> > > > > Would you post the output of dmesg and "ifconfig re0"?
>> > > Yes. But I reverted back to 7.0-RELEASE, so dmesg and ifconfig is
>> for
>> > that setup.
>> >
>>
>> Ok, would you let me know what functionality of re(4) was broken in
>> 7-stable? Just killed one's network is not enough to diagnose the
>> problem. Did you ever tried to disable checksum offload on
>> 7-stable? (i.e. ifconfig re0 -txcsum -rxcsum)
>
> I didn't try fiddling with ifconfig.
> Ping and traceroute didn't work. Ping took anywere from 5 to 30 minutes
> to get a reply.
Which is interesting, because I interpreted "that killed my network
card" to mean "the re(4) code in RELENG_7 as of 2008/08/20 caused my
network card to explode/die/burst into flames".
Please try to be a little more precise when describing what problems
you're having with a driver or hardware. Your above explanation ("ping
and traceroute didn't work") is also too terse. bernt_hansson -vvv.
:-)
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