RTL8139C+ re driver watchdog timeout

[Soren Schmidt]

It seems Russell Jackson wrote:
> Ever since 8139C+ support was seperated from the rl driver into the re 
> driver, I have had timeout problems. The interface simply stops 
> responding randomly. I never had this problem with the rl driver. At 
> first I thought this might be do to ACPI not initializing the NIC 
> correctly, but I have the same problem with ACPI disabled. Ifconfig 
> doesn't correctly display media status either. It shows media (none) 
> even though a cable is connected, and the interface will work (however 
> with the timeout problem).
> 
> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>         options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
>         inet 192.168.0.4 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>         ether 00:08:02:d0:21:4e
>         media: Ethernet 100baseTX <full-duplex> (none)
> 
> Note that I set the media type and mediaopt manually with ifconfig. It 
> still shows a status of none.
> 
> Also note that this same hardware did work perfectly before with the old 
> rl driver.

Just a "me too" entry here, I've put an ifconfig down/up in crontab
every minute, that seems to keep the interface up :)

-Søren
                     Yes I know it works under windows!!