Re: Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-29 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 01:01:26PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:46:30AM +0900, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: > > > Given that you can reliably reproduce the issue, let's check simple ones > > first. > > Just as a quick update, I couldn't tolerate the network outages any m

Re: Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-29 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Wed, Oct 29, 2014 at 10:46:30AM +0900, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: > Given that you can reliably reproduce the issue, let's check simple ones > first. Just as a quick update, I couldn't tolerate the network outages any more as they were impacting my work, so I bought an Intel NIC. That said, this wi

Re: Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-28 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 11:44:45PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:50:20AM +0900, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: > > > Currently re(4) heavily relies on power on default settings since no > > detailed register configuration is not available. Some register > > configurations ma

Re: Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-27 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:50:20AM +0900, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: > Currently re(4) heavily relies on power on default settings since no > detailed register configuration is not available. Some register > configurations made in Windows can survive from warm boot. Alright, a cold boot doesn't help.

Re: Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-27 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
On Tue, Oct 28, 2014 at 10:50:20AM +0900, Yonghyeon PYUN wrote: > But the RX frame alignment error normally indicates cabling issue or > speed/duplex mismatches with link partner. Hm. I don't think it's a cabling issue since the only thing changing between working (Linux) and flaky (FreeBSD) is t

Re: Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-27 Thread Yonghyeon PYUN
On Mon, Oct 27, 2014 at 03:51:24PM -0400, Mason Loring Bliss wrote: > Hi, all. > > I've been having sporadic and serious problems with the Realtek gigabit > interface built into my motherboard. Periodically, it just freezes up. I've > tried several things to no avail: turning on DEVICE_POLLING, fr

Very bad Realtek problems

2014-10-27 Thread Mason Loring Bliss
Hi, all. I've been having sporadic and serious problems with the Realtek gigabit interface built into my motherboard. Periodically, it just freezes up. I've tried several things to no avail: turning on DEVICE_POLLING, frobbing bootloader options and sysctl settings, etc. I had a solid week of fun