ifconfig on re0 panics Toshiba Satellite M115-S3094 with RealTek 8101E chipset

[Joe Talbott]

On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 03:52:43PM -0500, Joe Talbott wrote:
> On Sun, Dec 10, 2006 at 12:10:38PM -0800, Matthew Dillon wrote:
> >     The shifted MAC address is a clear sign of problems.  It sounds
> >     like the RE driver is not accessing the RE hardware's EEPROM 
> >     correctly.  That could also account for the parity error NMI,
> >     since PCI bus accesses are parity checked.  It sounds like the
> >     driver is not properly recognizing the device.
> > 
> >     Here's a question... I assume the Laptop has a CDROM drive.  If
> >     you boot a FreeBSD CD.. one of the newer ones that can give you
> >     a live shell prompt without having to install FreeBSD, does FreeBSD
> >     recognize the RE device and can you ifconfig it up?  Is the MAC
> >     address shifted?
> > 
> 
> FreeBSD 6.1-RELEASE doesn't recognize the re(4) device.  A snapshot of
> FreeBSD 7-CURRENT doesn't finish booting, it looks like it hangs in
> the video probe or there abouts.
> 
> FreeBSD has the 8101E in their rl(4) driver.

This is wrong.  The FreeBSD driver at realtek.com.tw was for rl(4).

Joe