FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

Pyun YongHyeon pyunyh at gmail.com
Sun Jan 11 17:11:56 PST 2009


On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 07:22:06PM +0300, Eugene Gladchenko wrote:
 > Walter,
 > 
 > Thursday, January 8, 2009, 2:50:40 AM, you wrote:
 > 
 > WV> Booting kernel.old, which is 7.0-RELEASE-p7 completely alleviates all
 > WV> problems.  I believe this roundly confirms that this is a bug in the
 > WV> 7.1-RELEASE re kernel drivers.
 > 
 > Does kern/130011 look similar? http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=130011

Do you have RTL8168C controller? If not, it's not related with
Walter's issue as 7.0-RELEASE didn't have a support for RTL8168C.

 > 
 > The re driver was really broken in 7.1-RC2 and the fix didn't get to 7.1-RELEASE.

If you have re(4) issues, please provide more details such as
dmesg output, way to reproduce the issue etc.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon


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