Realtek RTL8100S on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

[j snod]

I just tried a clean install of 6.0 Beta 2, and still the same problem, 
but now with additional error messages:

re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP
re0: link state changed to DOWN

Over and over and over, whenever the LED on the network jack blinks.

Further research indicated that ACPI could be a problem, so I disabled 
it by adding hint.acpi.0.disabled="1" to /boot/device.hints.  This 
produced a different error:

re0: 2 link states coalesced
re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: 2 link states coalesced
re0: link state changed to DOWN

Over and over on every LED blink.

-j



j snod wrote:
> 
> I did some more research, it appears that the Abit AA8-DuraMax actually 
> uses the RealTek RTL8100S chipset, not the 8169.
> 
> The hardware compatibility list for 5.4 shows support for the 8110S 
> chipset, but not my specific motherboard.  Perhaps it is a new chip 
> revision?
> 
> I tried the patch by Dag-Erling Smørgrav from a similar thread ( 
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011022.html 
> ) but no luck.
> 
> -j
> 
> 
> Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
>> On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel <jpeg at thilelli.net> wrote:
>> ...
>>> Regrettably, i always encountered this problem.  I spoke about that 
>>> since
>>> the middle of 2004, and didn't really receive feedback on this.  I try a
>>> lot of things but none worked better than the other.
>>>
>>> To not forget about it, i filled a bug report on this particular 
>>> problem,
>>> see PR kern/80005 for more details.
>>>
>>> The last thing i want to give another try is to upgrade to RELENG_6,
>>> since i currently follow the RELENG_5 branch.  But i am not *very*
>>> confident about that...
>>>
>>> Sorry not to have better answer to give you.
>>
>> IIRC, I have a RTL8169S-based D-Link gigabit network card at home and
>> it works with FreeBSD just fine.
>>
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