FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2009 at 08:59:41AM +0000, Oliver Peter wrote:
 > I'm on 7.1-RELEASE/amd64 with the following card:
 > 
 > re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x368c1462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 > 
 > And luckey me does not experience any network problems at all.
 > 
 > But I have to say that I was suffering an interrupt storm, and some
 > smart people told me just to remove USB and Firewire support from the
 > kernel which has fixed the problem.
 > 

Read the following thread and enable MSI feature of re(4).
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2008-December/047010.html

 > Dunno if this helps you.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon