Well, um, if you look for messages from me last June and then again several times recently you'll find we are a club of three, at least.
I can't actually manually ifconfig it either, it comes up the first time fine, but I can wedge my machine with a few large transfers. I got a couple of hints via email about crappy RealTek errata and I spent an hour squinting at the diffs between -stable where it works flawlessly, and -current, but could not see anything that was related. But I'm lousy at drivers. I was actually pondering whether to ditch the idea of using the on-board rl, and switch to a wifi card or something else, since it's back in -stable now, and this is an acpi only laptop. Best, Russell : +-------[ Martin Minkus ]---------------------- : | During boot, i get the following: : | : : [snip] : : | I really want to start upgrading to 5.0 (There are no other issues, and : | some people i know have been running 5.0-CURRENT ever since work on 5.0 : | began). : : I found that if I tried to specify any media or mediaopt options to ifconfig : that the RL's would refuse to find carrier (das blinkenlights on the switch). : : Lines like the following simply don't work; : : ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 media auto mediaopt full-duplex" : ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0 media 100BaseTX mediaopt :full-duplex" : : whether you specify auto or specify a media. : : However, if I just leave the card alone; : : ifconfig_rl0="inet 10.10.10.10 netmask 255.255.255.0" : : It will come up by itself in 100BaseTX full-duplex on its own first time : every time. : : It's something to try at least I suppose. : : -- : Totally Holistic Enterprises Internet| | Andrew Milton : The Internet (Aust) Pty Ltd | M:+61 416 022 411 | : ACN: 082 081 472 ABN: 83 082 081 472 |[EMAIL PROTECTED]| Carpe Daemon : : To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] : with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message