Unable to get RealTek 8139C+ to work with re(4) under FreeBSD 6.1

[Dinesh Nair]

On 08/14/06 18:39 Pyun YongHyeon said the following:
> Recent changes from wpaul disabled re_diag() routine by default so it

i disabled re_diag() in /usr/src/sys/dev/if_re.c, and that caused the 
kernel trap to go away, as per my original email. also, see my followup 
email (to myself) in which i disabled the check for the 8139C+, forcing it 
to be recognized by the rl driver and this seems to make it work.

> However I've seen one user reported re(4) breakage on stable.
> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-stable/2006-August/027356.html

that seems to be exactly the problem i initially observed as well.

> Please try latest stable and show your results. If it still does not
> work please let us know. I don't have 8139C+ based NICs so it would be

i am on a recent stable, circa two weeks ago as well. have there been 
significant changes to the re driver since ?

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