bge auto-negotiation fails with recent current

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sat Jun 9 02:18:36 UTC 2007


On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 06:18:04PM +0000, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote:
 > 
 > I have the exact same behaviour with if_re in my "zepto 6615WD"
 > laptop.
 > 
 > Dmesg:
 > re0: <RealTek 8168/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x3000-0x30ff mem 0xcc000000-0xcc000fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
 > rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
 > rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
 > re0: Ethernet address: 00:a0:d1:c1:f9:ad
 > re0: [FILTER]
 > 

Would you let me know model/revision of the PHY?
I guess it uses newer transceiver, RTL8211B(L), from RealTek.

 > Poul-Henning
 > 
 > In message <20070608175338.B701745042 at ptavv.es.net>, "Kevin Oberman" writes:
 > >--==_Exmh_1181325218_81135P
 > >
 > >Yesterday I updated my laptop for the first time since May 10. The 
 > >
 > >The bge device does not auto-negotiate. 
 > >
 > >After booting to single-user, but device looks fine
 > >media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 > >status: active
 > >
 > >As soon as I do 'ifconfig bge0 up', the link goes down and I see:
 > >media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
 > >status: no carrier
 > >
 > >If I manually set the media to 100baseTX, it comes up. If I set it back
 > >to autoselect, it again reports "media: Ethernet autoselect (none)" and
 > >"Status: no carrier".
 > 
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