amd64/106918: Asus P5B with internal RealTek PCIe Ethernet

Tue Dec 19 06:30:31 PST 2006

>Number:         106918
>Category:       amd64
>Synopsis:       Asus P5B with internal RealTek PCIe Ethernet
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    freebsd-amd64
>State:          open
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Tue Dec 19 14:30:16 GMT 2006
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Ighor Poteryakhin
>Release:        6.2-RC1/amd64
>Organization:
>Environment:
new.office.furgon-center.ru 6.2-RC1 FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 #3: Tue Dec 19 15:27:28 MSK 2006     ighor at new.office.furgon-center.ru:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/SMP-CUSTOM  amd64
>Description:
OS detects ethernet controller

Dec 19 16:27:37 new kernel: re0: <RealTek 8168B/8111B PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xfe9ff000-0xfe9fffff irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3
Dec 19 16:27:37 new kernel: miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
Dec 19 16:27:37 new kernel: rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus0
Dec 19 16:27:37 new kernel: rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
Dec 19 16:27:37 new kernel: re0: Ethernet address: 00:18:f3:07:6c:7a
Dec 19 16:27:37 new kernel: re0: [FAST]

, but have i/o errors sometimes. "i/o error" it means data from opened tcp socket (from or to this machine) hangs for long time. Always and only on some ip addressess and ports.

For example.

# telnet www.yandex.ru 80
Trying 213.180.204.11...
Connected to www.yandex.ru.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET /
<html>... here comes html body but incomplete...

then input hangs up.
>How-To-Repeat:
Install FreeBSD 6.2-RC1 to machine with Asus P5B, try to surf websites. Sometimes on the same sites it will hang.
>Fix:
I've changed ethernet controller to rl (Realtek 8139) - now it is all ok.
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted: