FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Jung-uk Kim]

On Monday 12 January 2009 12:21 pm, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
> Walter Venable wrote:
> > FreeBSD 7.1 upgrade broke my network access, machine is totally
> > offline (powered-on and I can play inside it at the terminal, but
> > absolutely 0 network access):
> > This happened AFTER make kernel but BEFORE make installworld.  I
> > think this implies it's a kernel driver issue.
>
> Hi,
>
> i see similar problems with a re card:
>
> re0 at pci0:4:7:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x816710ec chip=0x816710ec
> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>      device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>      class      = network
>      subclass   = ethernet
>
> After upgrading to 7.1-RELEASE (and also STABLE) the NIC doesn't
> seem to receive any frames. I can see the DHCP Requests on the DHCP
> Server but the DHCPOFFERS are never seen by the client with the re0
> device. After setting promiscious mode on the interface (i.e. by
> tcpdump -ni re0) the interface begins to work fine.
>
> I've attached a complete dmesg output, but i think the detection
> works fine, here the short version:
>
> re0: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port
> 0x9c00-0x9cff mem 0xdfdff000-0xdfdff0ff irq 20 at device 7.0 on
> pci4 re0: Chip rev. 0x18000000
> re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
> rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
> re0: Ethernet address: 00:1a:92:35:29:fa
> re0: [FILTER]

Please revert SVN r180519 (or CVS r1.95.2.22) and try again:

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c.diff?r1=1.95.2.21;r2=1.95.2.22

Jung-uk Kim