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Date:      Mon, 1 Sep 2008 16:32:11 +0900
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Bernt Hansson <bernt@bah.homeip.net>
Cc:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Message-ID:  <20080901073210.GE48568@cdnetworks.co.kr>
In-Reply-To: <48B7A6AD.9020509@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>

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 09:35:09AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon skrev:
 > > On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:49:20AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
 > >  > > Lukas Razik:
 > >  > >> Hello!
 > >  > >>
 > >  > >> I've a GigaByte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboard with a "RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit 
 > >  > >> Ethernet NIC" and I've read that 7.0-RELEASE / amd64 should recognize these 
 > >  > >> cards (by the "re" driver) but it doesn't in my case.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > I got an Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 with the same network chip and it's
 > >  > > working right out of the box. There are other issues with that motherboard.
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008
 > >  > > root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > 
 > >  > > re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01
 > >  > > hdr=0x00
 > >  > >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 > >  > >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
 > >  > >     class      = network
 > >  > >     subclass   = ethernet
 > >  > > 
 > >  > >> #uname -a :
 > >  > >> FreeBSD  7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     
 > >  > >> root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
 > >  > 
 > >  > 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)

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon



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