Problem with re0

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 05:15:10PM -0800, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 02:53:15PM +0100, Milan Obuch wrote:
> > On Sunday 30 January 2011 07:40:48 Zeus V Panchenko wrote:
> > > another detail for this nic
> > > 
> > > dmidecode
> > > Base Board Information
> > >         Manufacturer: ASUSTeK Computer INC.
> > >         Product Name: AT5NM10-I
> > >         Version: Rev x.0x
> > >         Serial Number: MT7006K15200322
> > > 
> > 
> > I did not followed this thread closely, but I checked my new board and it is 
> > the same.
> > 
> > > uname -a
> > > FreeBSD 8.2-PRERELEASE amd64
> > > 
> > > system was cvsup-ed 2011.01.20
> > > 
> > > if_re.c,v 1.160.2.17 2011/01/15 00:32:15 yongari
> > > 
> > > dmesg
> > > rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> > > rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
> > > 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX,
> > > 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto,
> > > auto-flow re0: Ethernet address: 20:cf:30:89:5e:95
> > > re0: [FILTER]
> > > 
> > > pciconf -lv
> > > re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x83a31043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x03
> > > hdr=0x00 vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> > >     device     = 'Gigabit Ethernet NIC(NDIS 6.0) (RTL8168/8111/8111c)'
> > >     class      = network
> > >     subclass   = ethernet
> > > 
> > 
> > All details are the same for my board (modulo serial number and MAC, of 
> > course), and in my case it works with no problem, but only in 100 Mb switch 
> > port. In 1 Gb port I have no link. I must verify my cables, port on switch 
> > itself works just fine with another 1 Gb (intel) card.
> > 
> 
> Would you try a patch at the following URL?
> http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/rgephy.link.patch3
> 

Previous one had a bug, please use updated one.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/rgephy.link.patch4

> > > 
> > > while connected directly NIC <-> NIC they flaps too
> > > 
> > 
> > I will try this against another 1 Gb card too, just to see what happens... in 
> > 100 Mb mode it works just fine, as I mentioned already - running flood ping 
> > with 1472 bytes packets for more than an hour I see only four responses 
> > missing in more than 21 millions tries...
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Milan