re0: RealTek 8168/8111B: no carrier

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Tue Nov 6 23:51:59 PST 2007


On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:37:08AM +0200, Alexander Shikoff wrote:
 > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:24:30AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
 > >  > > # pciconf -lv
 > >  > > [...]
 > >  > > re0 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 > >  > >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 > >  > >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
 > >  > >     class      = network
 > >  > >     subclass   = ethernet
 > >  > > [...]
 > >  > 
 > >  > Further investigation... It seems that re(4) driver does not
 > >  > support auto-negotiation correctly. If I manually set media to 100baseTX and 
 > >  > bring up interface with 'ifconfig re0 up' then it works.
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > Would you show me more information for link partner(i.e. FreeBSD 6.2 box)?
 > 
 > Yes, of course:
 > 
 > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE			7.0-BETA2
 > 	rl0	<===================>	   re0
 > 
 > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xfa000000-0xfa0000ff irq 21 at device 1.0 on pci2
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
 > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:db:ca:98
 > rl0: link state changed to UP
 > 
 > # pciconf -lv
 > rl0 at pci2:1:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     device     = 'RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 > 

Hmm, the link partner uses rl(4) so show me the PHY driver(rlphy(4)?)
information. (You can extract it from dmesg(8) output.)
Does the link partner has a forced speed/duplex option for rl(4)?

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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