On Fri, 05 Dec 2003 13:01:15 +0300
den <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote:
On Friday, 5 December 2003 at 8:51:30 +0200, Chris Visser wrote:I have had the problem with this card on FreeBSD 5.0.
Hi,
I'm running FreeBSD 5.1, on a box with a Digi Sync 570 card and a Realtek 8139 network card.
The Machine runs fine, most of the time, but every now and again my
network card stops working for no reason. Rebooting the box fixes this
for a while, but the it starts again.
There have been reports of instabilities with the 8139. I don't know if it's really the hardware to blame or the driver, but the documentation for the hardware is apparently so terrible that it's difficult to say.
I'm using an 8139 in a number of places, including (currently) my main server machine. The switch notes a large number of errors under load, and I'm thinking of changing to a different card the next time I have to reboot.
Rather than reboot your machine, you'll probably find that the following sequence unwedges the card:
ifconfig rl0 down ifconfig rl0 up
I had this in a cron job at one point.
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Problem was resolved by recompiling of kernel with new drivers from Realtec.
It seems there is many modification of 8139 chipset that have a postfix ( "D", "C",...).
When I choose driver that match my chipset all become ok.
I don't know whether this driver was included in 5.1, so this is only assumption, and it doesn't help to you.
-------------- Denis.
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I found ftp://152.104.125.40/cn/nic/rtl8139abcd8130810xseries/freebsd-8139(110).zip via www.realtek.com.tw, which is for FreeBSD.
However, it is for 4.5.
Could you give me (us) your reference to 5.0 (or 5.x) ?
horio shoichi
Unfortunately, I don't remember where I found the diver.
Are you sure that dirver from link you pointed isn't serve for 5.0 ?
I have had the problems with this card approximately in the same time as changing system from 4.x to 5.0 .
Possibly , I fixed the problem in 4.x - not in 5.0 - I don't remeber precisely. But now I have this card working under 5.0 and there is no problem.
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