kern/55727: rl(4) not working in recent 4.8-STABLE: watchdog timeout

[Eugene Grosbein]

Bill Paul wrote:
> 
> Ok. I went out and bought a D-Link 530+ card with the same chip you
> have and used the latest (.18) driver, and it works fine for me.
> I am really not sure what's broken. There are only two small things
> that _might_ have bearing on the problem. To test my theory, download
> the driver from:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/RealTek/4-stable
> 
> Copy the version of if_rl.c and if_rlreg.h from that location into
> /sys/pci and see if they work.
> 
> -Bill

H!

I think I've found traces of breakage.

My kernel contains options DEVICE_POLLING. However, I did not enable
polling using sysctl. Now I've got your last version and deleted
DEVICE_POLLING from the kernel. And all cards started to work as before.

Hope this will help.

Eugene Grosbein