On 2013-Feb-07 15:13:27 -0800, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote: >I just aquired a brand new chepie gigabit PCI ethernet card off eBay. >The main chip on it appears to be an RTL8110S-32. ... >I've tried two different CAT6 cables, two different LAN ports on my E2000, >and I've even tried the card in two different PCI slost on my motherboard, >but the results are always the same.
Based on the testing you've done, I'd suspect a broken card. I'll echo the comments that Realtek is the cheapest end of the market and you'd be better off with a Broadcom or Intel NIC. >P.S. dmesg has this to say about the card: > >re0: <RealTek 8169/8169S/8169SB(L)/8110S/8110SB(L) Gigabit Ethernet> port >0xbe00-0xbeff mem 0xdf9ff000-0xdf9ff0ff irq 18 at device 5.0 on pci4 >re0: Chip rev. 0x04000000 >re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000 >re0: Ethernet address: 00:13:3b:02:03:bd >re0: link state changed to UP >re0: link state changed to DOWN >re0: link state changed to UP The critical information you've left out is the phy details. This should look something like: miibus0: <MII bus> on re0 rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0 rgephy0: none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow On 2013-Feb-08 12:48:32 -0800, "Ronald F. Guilmette" <r...@tristatelogic.com> wrote: >I did some more experiments. Fortunately, I had a CAT6 crossover cable >lying around. For future reference, you can join GigE interfaces with either straight through or crossover cables. >In the case of connecting to the laptop, all seemed to work correctly, >however ifconfig showed that my re0 device in this case believed itself >to be "master". (I suspect that this may make a difference, and that >the current FreeBSD re driver may perhaps behave better when it is >acting as master.) The "master" term seems to only define which end is the clock source. >in the output from "ifconfig re0", *however* a moment or two later, >suddenly the connection was entirely dropped, and now the ifconfig >output said "no carrier". What status was reported on the lights at each end? -- Peter Jeremy
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