re driver in 5.3?

[Scott Gasch]

Hi,

I'm trying to get a linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card (version 3) working
under freebsd 5.3.  This appears to be an RTL8169S based card.

When I build a kernel with the re device (and miibus) enabled, the card is
not detected.  I also tried building a GENERIC kernel to sanity check my
config -- the card is not detected with the GENERIC kernel either.  I
verified that the if_re.c file is being compiled / included in the kernel.

The LINT config for 5.3 _does_not_ include "device re" which I find
strange.  The man page for re says it was introduced in 5.2 so I think it
should be here?

I tried disabling ACPI support in the loader menu but this did not result in
the detection of the card.

I tried booting a 6.1 kernel on the machine and it _does_ detect the
device.  Is this likely due to driver code differences or something else in
the 6.x kernels?  I'd rather not upgrade this box to 6.x yet but I could
certainly bring it up to 5.5.

Thx,
Scott