Date: Tue, 31 Jan 2006 07:28:41 +0100 (CET) From: "Julien Gabel" <jpeg@thilelli.net> To: "Gary Corcoran" <gcorcoran@rcn.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, Hans Nieser <hans@nieser.net>, Emmanuel Duros <emmanuel.duros@udcast.com> Subject: Re: re0: 2 link states coalesced. Message-ID: <61992.192.168.1.20.1138688921.squirrel@webmail.thilelli.net> In-Reply-To: <43DEA100.2050200@rcn.com> 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> <43DEA100.2050200@rcn.com>
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>>>>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. I didn't seen this behaviour under GNU/Linux, NetBSD (1.6.2 to 2.0.2) and Windows Server 2003 Ent-Ed. On the other hand, i can see this "timeout" with SXCR (b27a to b30), even if it seems quicker to boot than with FreeBSD. > 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 :( ). Just for information, Lasse Østerild has test a cheap Gigabit Ethernet based on a RealTek 8169S-32 chipset (PCI version[*]), using the same SUNWrge driver as i did for this kind of adapter and seems not encounter the problem, at least he didn't mentionned it... -- -jpeg. [*] http://www.ovislink.com.tw/ge2032r.htm
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