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From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@gmail.com>
To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org
Subject: RealTek 8169S32 behaves erratically
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>Number:         81019
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       [re] re(4) RealTek 8169S32 behaves erratically
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       serious
>Priority:       medium
>Responsible:    yongari
>State:          closed
>Quarter:        
>Keywords:       
>Date-Required:  
>Class:          sw-bug
>Submitter-Id:   current-users
>Arrival-Date:   Sat May 14 14:20:00 GMT 2005
>Closed-Date:    Sun Mar 02 02:29:02 UTC 2008
>Last-Modified:  Sun Mar 02 02:29:02 UTC 2008
>Originator:     Pascal de Bruijn
>Release:        5.4-RELEASE
>Organization:
>Environment:
FreeBSD archilles.home.lan 5.4-RELEASE FreeBSD 5.4-RELEASE #0: Sun May 8 10:21:06 UTC 2005    root@harlow.xse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
>Description:
I have two RealTek 8169S32 network cards, which behave erratically under
FreeBSD 5.4. When booting the machine the NIC doesn't come up, sometimes
it does, sometimes it doesn't.

If it doesn't it may take a while and then it just spontaneously works again. 

Once working, they seems to remain working until I power down.


re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
        options=1b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
        inet 192.168.2.10 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.2.255
        inet6 fe80::20e:2eff:fe2c:4d97%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
        ether 00:0e:2e:2c:4d:97
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active

I also tried diffing the ifconfig when my NIC was working, and when it
wasn't working, but there we're no differences!

Enabling/Disabling of TXCSUM/RXCSUM didn't seem to matter.
>How-To-Repeat:
There is no way to deterministically reprocedure the problem, generally at
about half my boot-ups the NIC refuses the work properly.
>Fix:
No known fix... Maybe rebooting a couple of times, until I get lucky and
it works...


>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:

From: "Anton Ludwik" <anton.ludwik@gmail.com>
To: <bug-followup@FreeBSD.org>,
	<pmjdebruijn@gmail.com>
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/81019: RealTek 8169S32 behaves erratically
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 12:07:41 +0200

 I have a strange problem here as well with a Cnet ProG-2000S based on the
 RealTek 8169S32 chip. I am using pcbsd 0.7, which is based on Freebsd 5.4.
 Well here the Nic is identified and working but if I try to download
 something the speed goes down to 0 and the its stalled.
 
 I changed the MTU and full to half duplex and so on but nothing worked. And
 one time the card was completely down after changing full to half-duplex, I
 don't know if this is normal. In pcbsd 0.6 (based on Freebsd 5.3) it was
 working, so this is strange did they change something on the driver support?

From: Pascal de Bruijn <pmjdebruijn@gmail.com>
To: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org,  pmjdebruijn@gmail.com
Cc:  
Subject: Re: i386/81019: RealTek 8169S32 behaves erratically
Date: Thu, 26 May 2005 18:41:46 +0200

 I got this card:
 http://www.sweexeurope.com/product.asp?pid=259
 
 Thought the PCB on the picture isn't correct. My card really is
 the single chip version without an external Marvell Alaska PHY...
 
 My PCB looks really cheap, though the card works fine under other 
 operating systems.
 
 Most recent cheap Gigabit card are based on either this chip or the 
 Marvell Yukon...
 
 Regards,
 Pascal de Bruijn
State-Changed-From-To: open->feedback 
State-Changed-By: yongari 
State-Changed-When: Tue Nov 27 08:03:37 UTC 2007 
State-Changed-Why:  
Is it still an issue on RELENG_6/RELENG_7? 


Responsible-Changed-From-To: freebsd-bugs->yongari 
Responsible-Changed-By: yongari 
Responsible-Changed-When: Tue Nov 27 08:03:37 UTC 2007 
Responsible-Changed-Why:  
Grab. 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81019 
State-Changed-From-To: feedback->closed 
State-Changed-By: linimon 
State-Changed-When: Sun Mar 2 02:27:44 UTC 2008 
State-Changed-Why:  
Feedback timeout (> 3 months). 

http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=81019 
>Unformatted:
