FreeBSD 7.1 Breaks re and rl Network Interface Drivers

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 03:18:16PM +0100, Bartosz Stec wrote:
 > Walter Venable pisze:
 > >FreeBSD 7.1 upgrade broke my network access, machine is totally
 > >offline (powered-on and I can play inside it at the terminal, but
 > >absolutely 0 network access):
 > >This happened AFTER make kernel but BEFORE make installworld.  I think
 > >this implies it's a kernel driver issue.
 > >
 > >http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=1323 (this is an ongoing
 > >thread on the issue, the rl driver has also been reported broken).
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 > >  
 > I can confirm issues with re and 7.1-R
 > 
 > dmesg:
 > re0: <RealTek 8169SC/8110SC Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 
 > 0xbc00-0xbcff mem 0xfbfff000-0xfbfff0ff irq 17 at device 7.0 on pci1
 > re0: Chip rev. 0x18000000
 > re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
 > 
 > In my case this NIC works, but lags like hell after upgrade! Working on 
 > console gives me pauses every 3-4 second, and second server which 
 > connect to this one with re0 is reporting that communication is lost 
 > every couple of minutes
 > 

Would you try attached patch?

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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