Re: re(4) and Realtek 8168

[Dima Veselov <kab00m%lich.phys.spbu.ru@localhost>]

I found this bug on any 8168 found on Asus motherboards, so it seems not to be 
a hardware problem. As I assume it's somehow tied with ACPI. I will try to 
disable ACPI on next boot.

> > I found a problem with Realtek 8168 chips and NetBSD-5.*. I've tried 
> > NetBSD-5/i386, NetBSD-5.99.7, 11 and 15 i386 and amd64 snapshots with same 
> > result.
> > 
> > Card is working several minutes, it may even take dhcp address. After 
> > little work it stops responding and I get constant messages:
> > Jul 15 22:30:21 allegro /netbsd: re0: watchdog timeout
> > Jul 15 22:30:21 allegro /netbsd: re0: reset never completed!
> > 
> > Searching google i found several messages with same troubles, concerning 
> > 8111 and NetBSD 4.x.
> > 
> > Does anyone know what is a problem and what can I do to help fix it?
> > 
> > Pcictl dump follows:
> > 
> > [root@allegro ~]$ pcictl pci1 dump -d 0
> > PCI configuration registers:
> >   Common header:
> >     0x00: 0x816810ec 0x00100000 0x02000002 0x00000000
> > 
> >     Vendor Name: Realtek Semiconductor (0x10ec)
> >     Device Name: 8168B/8111B 10/100/1000 Ethernet (0x8168)
> >     Command register: 0x0000
> ~~~
> >     Status register: 0x0010
> ~~~
> >     Base address register at 0x10
> >       type: i/o
> >       base: 0x00000000, not sized
> >     Base address register at 0x14
> >       not implemented(?)
> >     Base address register at 0x18
> >       type: 64-bit nonprefetchable memory
> >       base: 0x0000000000000000, not sized
> >     Base address register at 0x20
> >       type: 64-bit prefetchable memory
> >       base: 0x0000000000000000, not sized
> 
> These values should not be zero.  Quite litterally, the hardware
> has disappeared out from under the driver.  This could be caused
> by either a hardware or driver problem.
> 
> But about all I have to say is that my
> re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8100E/8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 
> 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x01)
> hasn't given me noticable trobule.
> 
>       Jonathan Kollasch

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Sincerelly yours