Stange NIC Problem: DFE-538TX

[William Wong]

Hi there,

I'm having an odd problem where this NIC (cheap-o, yes I know) doesn't seem
to work on FreeBSD correctly.  I have the same cards (even revision models)
in two win boxen and they work fine. 10baseT works but not 100baseT.

With a normal NIC config, without explicitly setting the media to 10baseT,
it will autosense as 100BaseT @ full-duplex, showing active.  However I
can't ping any IP.  My switch indicates that the port is not active either.

If a 10baseT config, the switch will recognise that it's running at
half-duplex and all seems well.

I've read posts here that changes in stable may have affected this, but I'm
still running a 4.9-RELEASE system.

If anyone has any hints to why this is happening please E-mail me.  Please
CC directly since I'm not subscribed to this list.

Thank you,
- Will

Here are my system details:
> uname -a
FreeBSD epoch.anime.ca 4.8-RELEASE FreeBSD 4.8-RELEASE #0: Mon Sep 15
01:47:21 EDT 2003     root at epoch.anime.ca:/usr/src/sys/compile/EPOCH  i386

dmesg:
rl0: <D-Link DFE-530TX+ 10/100BaseTX> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem
0xe6000000-0xe60000ff irq 11 at device 12.0 on pci0
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:40:05:87:27:cd
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto