re0: 2 link states coalesced.

Gary Corcoran gcorcoran at rcn.com
Mon Jan 30 15:27:43 PST 2006


Julien Gabel 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 also have this problem, with a Gigabyte (brand) motheboard.
It's very annoying waiting for the "random" try which finally gets
the link to come up (and once in a while seems to never come up).
Windows2000 on the same machine has no problem.

However, I have a datapoint which might give somebody a clue as to
the problem.  Windows2000 was also doing the link-up/link-down dance
when I had the ethernet cable accidentally connected to the uplink-only
port of an old 100Mb hub (yes hub).  Since it's a gigabit interface,
I'm presuming that the Realtek has the modern auto-uplink feature
which tries to figure out if a cable "crossover" is needed.  Perhaps
the FreeBSD driver for the Realtek sets some bad default for the phy ???

> I don't really know if there is a PCI or PCMCIA version of this adapter,
> sorry.

Since Realtek ethernet controllers are "popular" (with manufacturers)
because of their low cost, I'd expect many cheap gigabit PCI cards to
use them.  Unfortunately I can't give you a specific brand (and often
the cheap cards seem to have no discernible name on them anyway :(  ).

Gary


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