>Number: 156266 >Category: kern >Synopsis: if_re.ko driver cannot handle RL8169 card properly >Confidential: no >Severity: serious >Priority: medium >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Fri Apr 08 02:30:09 UTC 2011 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Kostya Berger >Release: 8.2, also tested on 8.1 >Organization: >Environment: FreeBSD kostya-berger.homeip.net 8.2-RELEASE FreeBSD 8.2-RELEASE #0: Fri Feb 18 02:24:46 UTC 2011 r...@almeida.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC i386 >Description: ASUS P5B motherboard with "RealTek PCI-E Gigabit LAN controller". The device is identified by if_re driver, device re0 created, but it doesn't work. Reports "no link" when in fact there is active DHCP connection.
There is also RT8139 PCI NIC installed, but if_rl driver works fine for this NIC. The problem only exists in FreeBSD. Under Solaris/Linux/Windows/DragonflyBSD both devices work fine at the same time. >How-To-Repeat: Perhaps use ASUS P5B motherboard and try a FreeBSD-based system; in Debian kFreeBSD the problem exists as well. >Fix: Couldn't fix this driver, used a downloaded driver called "rtl_bsd_drv_v179", which seems to be a modified version of the original, modified by RealTek according to the info in the source file. >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted: _______________________________________________ freebsd-bugs@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-bugs To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-bugs-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
