kern/149285: Permanent DOWN/UP network interface ste0 on 8.1-RELEASE

[Bogdan]

>Number:         149285
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Permanent DOWN/UP network interface ste0 on 8.1-RELEASE
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    freebsd-bugs
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Wed Aug 04 16:40:08 UTC 2010
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Bogdan
>Release:        RELEASE 8.1
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD server 8.0-RELEASE-p4 FreeBSD 8.0-RELEASE-p4 #0: Wed Aug  4 11:57:56 EEST 2010     root at server:/usr/obj/usr/src2/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
After update from 8.0-RELEASE to 8.1-RELEASE i see in /var/log/messages:

Aug  4 19:12:40 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:12:41 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:12:41 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:12:42 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:12:42 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:12:42 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:12:45 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:12:46 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:12:47 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:12:48 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:13:13 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:13:14 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:13:18 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:13:19 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:13:19 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:13:19 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP
Aug  4 19:13:19 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to DOWN
Aug  4 19:13:19 server kernel: ste0: link state changed to UP


After return to kernel 8.0-RELEASE problem was solved.
I used Asus "NX1001 10/100Mb PCI" network card.
ste0: <Sundance ST201 10/100BaseTX> port 0xa400-0xa47f mem 0xf9008000-0xf90081ff irq 16 at device 3.0 on pci2
>How-To-Repeat:
Use Asus "NX1001 10/100Mb PCI" network card with 8.1-RELEASE kernel.
>Fix:


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