I worked with a similar patch for the bce driver, and received the same
issue.

From what I've seen, the patch would be for the "mii" device for this error.

After patching mii, the error and issues were resolved.

On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 06:28:36PM -0600, Ryan Coleman thus spake:
I have a RealTek 816x NIC in my FreeBSD 8.0 box. I did a full system install 
last night and at 2AM the NIC gave out. Now it's crapping out in minutes 
instead of hours.

When I run /etc/rc.d/netif restart I get  the normal processing data about my 
NICs and then this:
re0: reset never completed!
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed

And it proceeds to bring lo0 and re0 back up, but re0 has it's listed static IP 
but is not discoverable on the network.

A reboot can temporarily fix this but I want to avoid rebooting every 4-6 hours 
automatically (for obvious reasons).

I've found patches referencing 7.1 but not 8.0.

I can post more details if you need, just point me where you need me to look 
for them.

--
Ryan
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