Michael Nottebrock schreef:
After recently updating the windows drivers (I dual-boot Windows XP on the
machine the NIC is in), I hit this problem:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/HARDWARE_RTL8168#Troubleshooting which affects re(4)
like it does the Linux drivers described in the above link.
I also noticed this and the workaround as explained in the gentoo-wiki
works.
I already wrote the Realtek technical support about it since their "own"
FreeBSD driver (a hacked rl(4) that does not support any of the chip's
advanced features) does not manage to power up the PHY on its own either -
neither does the motherboard's BIOS when trying to netboot.
I have done the exact same thing and was surprised to receive a
response. Attached to this response was a beta-version of their (rl)
driver. After a quick test it seemed to have fixed the problem.
I have been trying to fix the issue in re(4) by looking at the changes
in the beta-driver but have not had any success so far (due to lack of
knowledge i guess).
I put the beta driver up here:
http://www.timkapel.nl/~laurens/rtl_bsd_drv_v174beta3.tgz
The other problem is that I have at least two applications misbehaving when
rxcsum/txcsum is enabled:
- The Linux Second Life client (yes, yes, I know, but it is nice for showing
off GLX and it is really really good at generating network traffic) will
cease to receive data after about a minute or so - turning off rcxsum/txcsum
will mend it on the spot.
- A Fedora Core 4 running in Qemu, networked with bridge(4) and tap(4), cannot
receive an ip address via DHCP. Interestingly, this even occurs if
rxcsum/txcsum was already turned off before launching Qemu - to make it work,
I have to cycle rxcsum/txcsum once. Might be related to promiscuous mode.
I realise that both of these make awful test cases, but so far they are the
only applications I found to expose those problems.
This is on FreeBSD kiste 6.2-STABLE FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE #4: Sat Jul 28 14:11:23
CEST 2007 root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/KISTE-SMP i386. The kernel sources
are up to date as of 2007-07-27.
The NIC is re0: <RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff
mem 0xfbfff000-0xfbffffff irq 36 at device 0.0 on pci3 / [EMAIL PROTECTED]:0:0:
class=0x020000 card=0x81681849 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00.
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