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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