dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Sun, Sep 22, 2013 at 08:28:08PM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> I've been unable to establish Internet connection from a new computer with Realtek 811E Ethernet despite this Ethernet chip working on another computer with another MSI motherboard.
> 
> Problem motherboard is MSI Z77 MPOWER.
> 
> Older, by two years, motherboard is MSI Z68MA-ED55(B3).
> 
> uname -a shows
> 
> FreeBSD amelia2 9.2-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 9.2-PRERELEASE #17 r254196: Sun Aug 11 00:36:49 UTC 2013     root at amelia2:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SANDY  amd64
> 
> I get the same problem with FreeBSD 9.1_STABLE i386.
> 
> These are USB-stick installations.
> 
> I was able to connect to the Internet with (MSI) Winki 3 (Linux-based), included on a DVD included in the motherboard package.
> 
> After nothing but frustration trying to boot USB-stick installations of NetBSD 6.1-STABLE and HEAD (i386), I successfully booted NetBSD-HEAD amd64 from early last May, and "dhclient re0" was successful, whereupon I downloaded, by cvs, the HEAD source tree and pkgsrc tree.
> 
> This proves or strongly suggests the Ethernet chip is healthy.
> 
> Anything I can do (at loader prompt or loader.conf?) to make this Ethernet work in FreeBSD?
> 
> I could update NetBSD-HEAD from source, update the packages through pkgsrc, and build subversion, then checkout the FreeBSD-HEAD source tree, ports and doc trees too, and build FreeBSD-HEAD from source on hard drive using USB-stick installation of FreeBSD 9.2 (prerelease or release).
> 
> Related part of /var/run/dmesg.boot is
> 
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe000-0xe0f
> f mem 0xf7d04000-0xf7d04fff,0xf7d00000-0xf7d03fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
> re0: Chip rev. 0x2c800000
> re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000

It looks like 8168E-VL.
Could you try attached patch and show me the dmesg output(re(4) and
rgephy(4) only)? The patch was generated to support 8106E but it
will correctly show MAC revision number.

> miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
> rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX
> , 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-
> master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow, 1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
> re0: Ethernet address: d4:3d:7e:97:17:e2
> 
> 
> Log of "dhclient re0" was
> 
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 3
> DHCPOFFER from 192.168.1.1

Driver got a response but it seems it was discarded.

> DHCPREQUEST on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPREQUEST on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 6
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 13
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 14
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 17
> DHCPDISCOVER on re0 to 255.255.255.255 port 67 interval 11
> No DHCPOFFERS received.
> No working leases in persistent database - sleeping.
> 
> 
> Somewhat later I got
> 
>  Memory modified after free 0xfffffe0011546800(2048) val=977e3dd
> 4 @ 0xfffffe0011546800
> Memory modified after free 0xfffffe001153b800(2048) val=ffffffff @ 0xfffffe00115
> 3b800
> Memory modified after free 0xfffffe0011524800(2048) val=977e3dd4 @ 0xfffffe00115
> 24800
> VESA: set_mode(): 24(18) -> 24(18)
> Memory modified after free 0xfffffe0011594000(2048) val=977e3dd4 @ 0xfffffe00115
> 94000
> 

The size(2048) indicates mbuf cluster which in turn means bad
things happened in re(4). I have no idea how this can happen
though.
If you assign static IP addressi to re(4), does the driver works as
expected?

> 
> In one case, when I went to bed on this, hours later the system crashed and went into the debugger (db>), where I was rather lost, couldn't kill dhclient, after some time types "reboot".
> 
> Should I have posted this to a different list (hardware, questions?)?
> 
> I would like to find if FreeBSD HEAD (10.0 alphas) would do better.  Also, because of nearness of 10.0-RELEASE, I would rather go this track than 9.2 and then update; I already have 9.2 prerelease on other computer.
> 
> Motherboard also has Atheros Wi-Fi (Atheros AR9271 802.11n), and I also have a USB stick-type WLAN adapter (Hiro Inc H50191, Realtek RTL8191SU 802.11n chip).
> 
> Tom
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