re(4) problems (realtek 8169S)

[Johan Bucht]

On 28 July, 2004 - Johan Bucht wrote:

> 
> Hi all, I recently bought a Level1 Realtek 8169S, 10/100/1000mbit PCI
> card.
> However I can't get it to work properly as I frequently get checksum
> errors as well as erronous packet lengths. Unsetting the RXCSUM & TXCSUM
> options seems to help out but I get timeouts on my connections once
> every few minutes. 
> 
> The card shows up (misidentified) in dmesg as "RealTek 8110S Single-chip
> Gigabit Ethernet" but shows up correctly using pciconf -lv. 
> 
> Setting the speed doesn't seem to make a difference and changing cable
> or nic on the other end doesn't affect it either. So my guess is either
> bad silicon or driver problem. Anyone with similar problems using 8169S
> hardware?
> -- 
> /Johan Bucht
> bucht at acc.umu.se

Some additional information, I'm running 5.2.1 btw.

pciconf -lv gives the following information

re0 at pci0:10:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x816910ec chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10
hdr=0x00
    vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
    device   = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter'
    class    = network
    subclass = ethernet

this is what shows up in dmesg

re0: <RealTek 8110S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem
0xe3000000-0xe30000ff irq 1
2 at device 10.0 on pci0
re0: Ethernet address: 00:50:fc:ec:5c:5b
miibus1: <MII bus> on re0
rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus1
rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX,
1000baseTX-FDX, auto

-- 
/Johan Bucht
bucht at acc.umu.se