I did some more research, it appears that the Abit AA8-DuraMax actually
uses the RealTek RTL8100S chipset, not the 8169.
The hardware compatibility list for 5.4 shows support for the 8110S
chipset, but not my specific motherboard. Perhaps it is a new chip
revision?
I tried the patch by Dag-Erling Smørgrav from a similar thread (
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011022.html
) but no luck.
-j
Julien Gabel wrote:
Regrettably, i always encountered this problem. I spoke about that
since the middle of 2004, and didn't really receive feedback on this.
I try a lot of things but none worked better than the other.
To not forget about it, i filled a bug report on this particular
problem, see PR kern/80005 for more details.
The last thing i want to give another try is to upgrade to RELENG_6,
since i currently follow the RELENG_5 branch. But i am not *very*
confident about that...
Sorry not to have better answer to give you.
IIRC, I have a RTL8169S-based D-Link gigabit network card at home and
it works with FreeBSD just fine.
Yes, i know it simply works for a lot of users. It doesn't mean that it
is the case for all users... i am of those.
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