re0: RealTek 8168/8111B: no carrier

Alexander Shikoff minotaur at crete.org.ua
Wed Nov 7 00:32:24 PST 2007


On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 04:51:34PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:37:08AM +0200, Alexander Shikoff wrote:
>  > On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:24:30AM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>  > >  > > # pciconf -lv
>  > >  > > [...]
>  > >  > > re0 at pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
>  > >  > >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>  > >  > >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>  > >  > >     class      = network
>  > >  > >     subclass   = ethernet
>  > >  > > [...]
>  > >  > 
>  > >  > Further investigation... It seems that re(4) driver does not
>  > >  > support auto-negotiation correctly. If I manually set media to 100baseTX and 
>  > >  > bring up interface with 'ifconfig re0 up' then it works.
>  > >  > 
>  > > 
>  > > Would you show me more information for link partner(i.e. FreeBSD 6.2 box)?
>  > 
>  > Yes, of course:
>  > 
>  > FreeBSD 6.2-STABLE			7.0-BETA2
>  > 	rl0	<===================>	   re0
>  > 
>  > rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0x9000-0x90ff mem 0xfa000000-0xfa0000ff irq 21 at device 1.0 on pci2
>  > miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
>  > rl0: Ethernet address: 00:e0:7d:db:ca:98
>  > rl0: link state changed to UP
>  > 
>  > # pciconf -lv
>  > rl0 at pci2:1:0:   class=0x020000 card=0x813910ec chip=0x813910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>  >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>  >     device     = 'RT8139 (A/B/C/810x/813x/C+) Fast Ethernet Adapter'
>  >     class      = network
>  >     subclass   = ethernet
>  > 
> 
> Hmm, the link partner uses rl(4) so show me the PHY driver(rlphy(4)?)
> information. (You can extract it from dmesg(8) output.)
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

> Does the link partner has a forced speed/duplex option for rl(4)?
No. 
# ifconfig rl0
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=8<VLAN_MTU>
        inet 10.0.34.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.34.255
        ether 00:e0:7d:db:ca:98
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
 
-- 
Kind Regards,	Alexander Shikoff
minotaur at crete.org.ua


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