dhclient failure with Realtek 8111E Etnernet on new MSI motherboard

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Thu, Sep 26, 2013 at 02:31:30AM +0000, Thomas Mueller wrote:
> > 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.
> 
> I assume I go to /usr/src and run
> patch < /home/arlene/computer/re.8106.diff 
> 

Yes.

> Then rebuild the kernel with -DNO_MODULES and install under a different name, like kernelre?
> 

Rebuilding kernel should be enough. See
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig-building.html
for more information.

> I would install this on USB-stick installation, could do this for i386 USB-stick installation as well.
> 
> > > 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?
> 
> I can try assigning a static address to re4, not really sure how to set up manually, though I did it long ago in Slackware Linux.
> 
> I wouldn't have known size 2048 indicated something bad, though the message's presence and system crash indicated that something was fouled up in memory.
> 
> Tom
>