Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

[Dmitry Mityugov]

On 8/10/05, Julien Gabel <jpeg at thilelli.net> wrote:
...
> Regrettably, i always encountered this problem.  I spoke about that since
> the middle of 2004, and didn't really receive feedback on this.  I try a
> lot of things but none worked better than the other.
> 
> To not forget about it, i filled a bug report on this particular problem,
> see PR kern/80005 for more details.
> 
> The last thing i want to give another try is to upgrade to RELENG_6,
> since i currently follow the RELENG_5 branch.  But i am not *very*
> confident about that...
> 
> Sorry not to have better answer to give you.

IIRC, I have a RTL8169S-based D-Link gigabit network card at home and
it works with FreeBSD just fine.

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Dmitry Mityugov, St. Petersburg, Russia
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