re0: PHY read failed

[Linda Messerschmidt]

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 10:32 AM, John Kotrla <jkotrla at angelo.edu> wrote:
> I don't use the device,
> […]
> any suggestions?

Compile it out of your kernel.  You should be able to do this by adding:

nodevice re

to your kernel config and rebuilding.

As to the actual problem it sounds like it might be a hardware issue.
(Good thing you're not using it.)