Re: re driver in 5.3?

2006-11-28 Thread Scott Gasch
FYI: this issue is "solved". I applied this patch (URL below) to the 5.3sources and built a kernel with an re driver that can detect the card. It seems to be working at gigabit speeds. Out of curiosity would someone who knows CVS better than I do kindly tell me what version of FreeBSD this patc

re driver in 5.3?

2006-11-28 Thread Robert Huff
Scott Gasch writes: > I tried booting a 6.1 kernel on the machine and it _does_ detect > the device. Is this likely due to driver code differences or > something else in the 6.x kernels? Something "in the kernel". Once upon a time, the Linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card (ve

re driver in 5.3?

2006-11-27 Thread Scott Gasch
Hi, I'm trying to get a linksys eg1032 gigabit ethernet card (version 3) working under freebsd 5.3. This appears to be an RTL8169S based card. When I build a kernel with the re device (and miibus) enabled, the card is not detected. I also tried building a GENERIC kernel to sanity check my conf