ifconfig rl0 does not report status on FreeBSD-4.9

[Jonas Bulow]

Hi,

The rl driver does not report it's link status on FreeBSD 4.9, at least 
not when using ifconfig. The chip is a Realtek 8139C+. I could not find 
anything about it in the archives. Any hints?

# ifconfig rl0
rl0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         inet 192.168.2.2 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
         ether 00:90:fb:04:5e:78
         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
# ping -c 1 192.168.2.1
PING 192.168.2.1 (192.168.2.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.2.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.514 ms

--- 192.168.2.1 ping statistics ---
1 packets transmitted, 1 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 0.514/0.514/0.514/0.000 ms

 From dmesg:

rl0: <RealTek 8139 10/100BaseTX> port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 
0xe7000000-0xe70000ff irq 12 at device 9.0 on pci0
rl0: Ethernet address: 00:90:fb:04:5e:78
miibus0: <MII bus> on rl0
rlphy0: <RealTek internal media interface> on miibus0
rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto

/j