Realtek RTL8100S on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

[Julien Gabel]

>>>> 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.

>> I did some more research, it appears that the Abit AA8-DuraMax actually
>> uses the RealTek RTL8100S chipset, not the 8169.
>>
>> The hardware compatibility list for 5.4 shows support for the 8110S
>> chipset, but not my specific motherboard.  Perhaps it is a new chip
>> revision?
>>
>> I tried the patch by Dag-Erling Smørgrav from a similar thread (
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011022.html
>> ) but no luck.

> I just tried a clean install of 6.0 Beta 2, and still the same problem,
> but now with additional error messages:
>
> re0: link state changed to UP
> re0: link state changed to DOWN
> re0: link state changed to UP
> re0: link state changed to DOWN
>
> Over and over and over, whenever the LED on the network jack blinks.
>
> Further research indicated that ACPI could be a problem, so I disabled
> it by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints.  This
> produced a different error:
>
> re0: 2 link states coalesced
> re0: link state changed to DOWN
> re0: 2 link states coalesced
> re0: link state changed to DOWN
>
> Over and over on every LED blink.

Same behaviour here: RELENG_5 or RELENG_6, with or without ACPI support.

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