RTL8102E (if_re) doesn't work with -current

[Bruce Cran]

Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 09:30:02AM -0800, Bruce Cran wrote:
>  > I just upgraded an HP Pavillion laptop from 7.1-RC1 to 8-CURRENT last 
>  > night and now the network doesn't work.  This laptop has a RTL8102E 
>  > chip, and no errors appear in the logs - it attaches and doesn't claim 
>  > to have any TX/RX errors, but it just doesn't do anything.  I've 
>  > attached the dmesg from a verbose boot.   I've seen messages saying 
>  > there might be issues with MSI interrupts - is that possibly an issue here?
>  > 
>
> No, it is in disabled state by default.
> The issue could be related with link state tracking code in re(4).
> Would you show me the output of "devinfo -rv | grep rlphy"?
> How about unplugging/replugging UTP cable?
> Does it make any difference?
>   

devinfo provides the output:
                rlphy0 pnpinfo oui=0x20 model=0x20 rev=0x1 at phyno=1

I let the startup continue so that dhclient was still running in the 
background, and I started getting lots of messages:

arp: 00:1e:ec:72:2b:8e attempts to modify permanent entry for 0.0.0.0 on re0

After unplugging the replugging the UTP cable the messages

re0: link state changed to DOWN
re0: link state changed to UP

apppeared in the logs but dhclient still didn't get any replies, and the 
arp messages started again.

-- 
Bruce Cran