Realtek RTL8169 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.

>>>> 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 just replied to this on an other post.

> 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...

Certainly, thanks... very interesting!  Although it doesn't seems to be
the problem, since i didn't set this kernel option.  On the other hand,
i am currently testing RELENG_6, not -CURRENT: maybe is this problem
finally fixed on HEAD (i will give it a try in a near future, if i can).

Thank you,
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