Realtek RTL8169 on FreeBSD 5.4: no carrier.

[j snod]

I did some more research, it appears that the Abit AA8-DuraMax actually 
uses the RealTek RTL8100S chipset, not the 8169.

The hardware compatibility list for 5.4 shows support for the 8110S 
chipset, but not my specific motherboard.  Perhaps it is a new chip 
revision?

I tried the patch by Dag-Erling Smørgrav from a similar thread ( 
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hackers/2005-March/011022.html 
) but no luck.

-j


Dmitry Mityugov wrote:
> 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.
>