Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel <jpeg at thilelli.net> 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.

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Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
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