On 1/4/2010 6:02 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > I should add this is a brand new NIC as of October, I believe. > > On Jan 4, 2010, at 5:48 PM, Ryan Coleman wrote: > >> I have a RealTek 816/x/ NIC in my FreeBSD 8.0 box, this is the same >> machine I was having issues with last month with ACPI. I've swapped >> out the hard drive and did a full system install last night and at 2AM >> the NIC gave out. >> >> 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 >> * >> * Just curious, but instead of restarting all network interfaces what happens when you down / up the link? What are your kernel messages telling you? (/var/log/messages) >> 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). So the NIC is working for you now - has the above error ever happened before, or was this an out of the blue occurrence, that is now repeating? >> >> I've found patches referencing 7.1 but not 8.x. I'm guessing you probably wont find any (at least yet -- or if they (the old patches) have already been committed via a previous PR (haven't really looked for one). >> >> I can post more details if you need, just point me where you need me >> to look for them. >> >> -- >> Ryan >> _______________________________________________ >> TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota >> tclug-list at mn-linux.org <mailto:tclug-list at mn-linux.org> >> http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list -- () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments