re0: 2 link states coalesced.

[Giorgos Keramidas]

On 2006-02-03 04:22, Giorgos Keramidas <keramida at ceid.upatras.gr> wrote:
> On 2006-01-30 11:39, Julien Gabel <jpeg at thilelli.net> wrote:
> >>> I filled one a year ago, for the very same problem (encountered for two
> >>> years now).  See Problem Report kern/80005 for more information.  I
> >>> think that another user (Emmanuel Duros) tried to speak with Realtek on
> >>> that point, not sure if there is feedback on it though...
> >>>
> >>> Sorry not to have better news.
> >
> >> Is this NIC available outside of Clevo D41EV laptop? As PCI or PCMCIA
> >> card?
> >
> > As far as i know, people who encounter this behaviour all use an
> > onboard ethernet adapter.  Emmanuel Duros with an MSI motherboard,
> > Hans Nieser using a Clevo D41EV and me with a D480V (also known as D47)
> > and based on a SiS M648FX 963 chipset.
> >
> > I don't really know if there is a PCI or PCMCIA version of this adapter,
> > sorry.
>
> I have a PCI version at home, which I can send to anyone with experience
> in the re(4) driver.  More info, when I get there and have access to
> things like ``pciconf -lv''.

Ok, I finally got home and have a bit of space time.  The dmesg output is:

    re0: <RealTek 8169S Single-chip Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xef005000-0xef0050ff irq 11 at device 10.0 on pci0
    miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
    rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S media interface> on miibus0
    rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
    re0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:b5:47:76:7c

And the full pciconf -lv output is:

    gothmog# pciconf -lv | cat -n
         1  hostb0 at pci0:0:0:        class=0x060000 card=0x06461039 chip=0x06461039 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
         2      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
         3      device   = 'SiS645DX Host-to-PCI Bridge'
         4      class    = bridge
         5      subclass = HOST-PCI
         6  pcib1 at pci0:1:0: class=0x060400 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00011039 rev=0x00 hdr=0x01
         7      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
         8      device   = 'SiS 630 Virtual PCI-to-PCI bridge (AGP)'
         9      class    = bridge
        10      subclass = PCI-PCI
        11  isab0 at pci0:2:0: class=0x060100 card=0x00000000 chip=0x00081039 rev=0x04 hdr=0x00
        12      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        13      device   = 'SiS PCI to ISA Bridge (LPC Bridge)'
        14      class    = bridge
        15      subclass = PCI-ISA
        16  atapci0 at pci0:2:5:       class=0x010180 card=0x55131039 chip=0x55131039 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
        17      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        18      device   = 'SiS5513 EIDE Controller (A,B step)'
        19      class    = mass storage
        20      subclass = ATA
        21  pcm0 at pci0:2:7:  class=0x040100 card=0xa0021458 chip=0x70121039 rev=0xa0 hdr=0x00
        22      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        23      device   = 'SiS7013 PCI Audio Accelerator'
        24      class    = multimedia
        25      subclass = audio
        26  ohci0 at pci0:3:0: class=0x0c0310 card=0x70011039 chip=0x70011039 rev=0x0f hdr=0x00
        27      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        28      device   = 'SiS5597/8 Universal Serial Bus Controller'
        29      class    = serial bus
        30      subclass = USB
        31  ohci1 at pci0:3:1: class=0x0c0310 card=0x70011039 chip=0x70011039 rev=0x0f hdr=0x00
        32      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        33      device   = 'SiS5597/8 Universal Serial Bus Controller'
        34      class    = serial bus
        35      subclass = USB
        36  ohci2 at pci0:3:2: class=0x0c0310 card=0x70011039 chip=0x70011039 rev=0x0f hdr=0x00
        37      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        38      device   = 'SiS5597/8 Universal Serial Bus Controller'
        39      class    = serial bus
        40      subclass = USB
        41  ehci0 at pci0:3:3: class=0x0c0320 card=0x70021039 chip=0x70021039 rev=0x00 hdr=0x00
        42      vendor   = 'Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS)'
        43      device   = 'SiS7002 USB 2.0 Enhanced Host Controller'
        44      class    = serial bus
        45      subclass = USB
+       46  re0 at pci0:10:0:  class=0x020000 card=0x311a1385 chip=0x816910ec rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
+       47      vendor   = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
+       48      device   = 'RTL8169 Gigabit Ethernet Adapter'
+       49      class    = network
+       50      subclass = ethernet
        51  vgapci0 at pci1:0:0:       class=0x030000 card=0x00000000 chip=0x011010de rev=0xb2 hdr=0x00
        52      vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
        53      device   = 'NV11 GeForce2 MX / MX 400'
        54      class    = display
        55      subclass = VGA
    gothmog#

This is a PCI 10/100/1000 Mbps GA311 Gigabit NIC from Netgear.

It does trigger a few 'N link states coalesced' messages at boot time,
but after it stabilizes, it works flawlessly in 100 Mbit mode here,
connected through a Linksys BEFW11S4 4-port switch to my laptop.

- Giorgos