On 2005-08-20T09:50:53+0400, Dmitry Mityugov wrote: > On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. > > Just realized that with ACPI disabled, this card does not work with > FreeBSD 5.4 (at least in my machine), with ACPI enabled - it does. > Hope this information will help somebody. I have RTL8169S in my laptop, and have seen the same up/down/up/down etc. behavior that is noted in PR 80005. I am running 7-CURRENT about a day old. I switched from my custom kernel back to GENERIC and the problem went away, so I started adding things from my custom config file into GENERIC to see what finally broke it, and it turned out to be: options ACPI_DEBUG Just thought that I would mention it... re0: Reserved 0x100 bytes for rid 0x10 type 4 at 0x1000 re0: <RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xd0008800-0xd00088ff irq 19 at device 8.0 on pci0 miibus0: <MII bus> on re0 rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus0 rgephy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto re0: bpf attached re0: Ethernet address: 00:90:f5:32:35:9f re0: [GIANT-LOCKED] -- Mike Oliver [see complete headers for contact information]
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