FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Fri Jan 16 20:48:08 PST 2009


On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 03:53:59PM +0100, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
 > Jung-uk Kim wrote:
 > >On Monday 12 January 2009 12:21 pm, Sascha Holzleiter wrote:
 > >>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
 > 
 > Thanks! This fixed my problem. I now have DHCP and a running network 
 > interface again with a 7.1-STABLE and the reverted r180519 changes.
 > If you need to test another version for the changes in r180519 let me 
 > know and i'll test them on this machine.
 > 

It seems that RTL8169SC does not like memory mapping. Instead of
using io mapping for all revisions, how about attached patch?

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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