Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1
I'm about to install 6.1 on a machine that's been happily ticking away with 4.1.1 for years now. (I need to upgrade it to gigabit ethernet.) Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek re(4) driver? If not, what would I have to do to enable it? -jsd- ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1
On Monday 04 December 2006 13:54, Jon Drukman wrote: I'm about to install 6.1 on a machine that's been happily ticking away with 4.1.1 for years now. (I need to upgrade it to gigabit ethernet.) Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek re(4) driver? Yes. If not, what would I have to do to enable it? echo 'if_re_load=YES' /boot/loader.conf JN ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1
Hello Pietro, A question, I have 8 servers! all intel motherboards, but some are 101 and others 945 models. all acting as NAT gateway, and the NAT NIC is dlink. vr0 and rl0 are my devices im having unknown dropdown connections! when i investigate i found nothing but watchdog timeout! Yes its heavy load, and every few days my vr0 stops acting as DHCP and i find watchdog timeout error.. What is the solutions? (change the NICs? both? And how to fix it! (console solutions? ) Thank you. Marwan. On Monday 04 December 2006 13:54, Jon Drukman wrote: Does the default kernel on the 6.1-R installation CD include the realtek re(4) driver? Yes, it does. But I'd suggest using a card based on another chipset. The re(4) serie is rather buggy: it often goes down for a while (watchdog timeout) on heavy ftp or cvs transfer loads. JN -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Realtek (re(4)) Driver in 6.1
On 12/4/06, Marwan Sultan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello Pietro, Hello! Yes its heavy load, and every few days my vr0 stops acting as DHCP and i find watchdog timeout error.. Yep, those are the symptoms... What is the solutions? (change the NICs? both? And how to fix it! (console solutions? ) I'm sorry, I can't help you... I'm not (yet) able to play with the if_re module code, and when I asked the same question a few years ago, the only answer I got was: Realtek sucks, go out and buy yourself a real NIC! At the time they pointed out 3Com or Intel as good candidates, but since my purpose was just to keep a SOHO server up, I never went out and never bought myself a new nic ;-) There's a discussion going on on freebsd-stable@ about the if_re module [sorry for cross posting], and it seems there's really skilled people taking part in the chat, so maybe they can give some [further] advice Thank you. Nope... Marwan. -- Pietro Cerutti ICQ: 117293691 PGP: 0x9571F78E - ASCII Ribbon Campaign - against HTML e-mail and proprietary attachments www.asciiribbon.org ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
