Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD
6.1
Pyun YongHyeon
pyunyh at gmail.com
Mon Aug 14 11:08:40 UTC 2006
On Mon, Aug 14, 2006 at 06:55:58PM +0800, Dinesh Nair wrote:
>
> On 08/14/06 18:39 Pyun YongHyeon said the following:
> >Recent changes from wpaul disabled re_diag() routine by default so it
>
> i disabled re_diag() in /usr/src/sys/dev/if_re.c, and that caused the
> kernel trap to go away, as per my original email. also, see my followup
> email (to myself) in which i disabled the check for the 8139C+, forcing it
> to be recognized by the rl driver and this seems to make it work.
>
AFAIK 8139C+ provides 8139 compatible mode which doesn't use
descriptor based transfer mechanism. As you know this mode
really sucks and need much more CPU power to saturate the link.
So I don't think it's good idea to make rl(4) serve 8139C+.
> >However I've seen one user reported re(4) breakage on stable.
> >http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027356.html
>
> that seems to be exactly the problem i initially observed as well.
>
> >Please try latest stable and show your results. If it still does not
> >work please let us know. I don't have 8139C+ based NICs so it would be
>
> i am on a recent stable, circa two weeks ago as well. have there been
> significant changes to the re driver since ?
>
Yes. What `ident /boot/kernel/if_re.ko` shows?
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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