FBSD 7.0-p3 NIC driver problem (Realtek)

[Fernando Apesteguía]

On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 2:55 AM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 05:25:26PM +0100, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> I copy here the mail I sent to freebsd-questions cause I didn't get any answers:
>>
>>
>> Yesterday I updated to 7.1-p3 on AMD64 arch.
>>
>> Since then, the NIC is not detected anymore. ifconfig doesn't show it
>> and I can't connect to the Internet.
>>
>> There were well-known issues with this NIC model before,
>> (http://unix.derkeiler.com/Mailing-Lists/FreeBSD/hackers/2008-11/msg00299.html)
>>  but the weird thing is that it seemed to be fine with
>> 7.1-RELEASE and newer till this -p3.
>>
>> It doesn't recognize the card in 4/5 boot sequences (really annoying).
>>
>> Anybody with this problem?
>
> I'm not sure you're suffering from MAC power saving issue of
> RealTek PCIe controller. Sometimes re(4) used to fail to wakeup the
> controller which in turn resulted in 'no driver' for the
> controller. If this is the case you can see "MII without any phy!"
> message in dmesg output.

You are right, I see that message.

> r188358(cvs if_re.c 1.95.2.40) should fix the issue so please try
> latest 7-stable or copy if_re.c, if_rlreg.h and if_rl.c from HEAD/
> 7-stable to your 7.1-RELEASE box and rebuild kernel.
> If you still see the same issue please let me know.

I copied the files and restarted my computer 5 times and the NIC was
present in all of them.
I will watch this issue and I will let you know if I notice more problems.

Thanks so much for your help.

>
> Btw, stable@ is more appropriate list for this type of issues.

Even if I'm not using -STABLE?

Cheers.

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