Issues with the realtek driver re (4) (But THANKFULLY it works now)

[wonslung]

This new version seems to work with my realtek 8111b onboard lans (i have 2)

at least somewhat….the first boot it noticed both re0 and re1
second boot it didn't find either
third boot it found re1 only (how it knew it was re1 and didn't name it re0 is beyond me but it did)
forth boot didn't find either
fifth boot found both
and it seems to be like this often....i've noticed that booting with acpi disabled gives me a better chance of it finding both...

does anyone know if theres anything i can add to force it to find re0 and re1 every time....i'm pretty new to pfsense and freebsd but i know in linux you can sometimes add options to make it spend more time on particular boot steps.

[wallabybob]

Please post the dmesg output of a boot that fails to find either r0 or re1. That may provide enough information to be able to tell you what the problem is.

[wonslung]

how do i make it log everything that goes to console…in normal freebsd you just add this line to /etc/sysctl.conf
console.info                                   /var/log/console.log

when i tried that with pfsense i don't have a console.log

[wonslung]

i was able to choose ath0 and ip over firewire as my interfaces long enough to log in and get shell access so i copied the dmesg log to another file….
this is the log of when re0 and re1 fail to load

Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Mar 17 15:41:49 EDT 2009
    sullrich@freebsd7-releng_1_2_3-pre-testing.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.7
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E7400  @ 2.80GHz (2800.12-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x1067a  Stepping = 10
  Features=0xbfebfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>Features2=0x408e39d<sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,sse4.1,<b26>>
  AMD Features=0x20000000 <lm>AMD Features2=0x1 <lahf>Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 3623550976 (3455 MB)
avail memory = 3541700608 (3377 MB)
ACPI APIC Table: <080808 APIC1821>
FreeBSD/SMP: Multiprocessor System Detected: 2 CPUs
 cpu0 (BSP): APIC ID:  0
 cpu1 (AP): APIC ID:  1
ioapic0 <version 2.0="">irqs 0-23 on motherboard
wlan: mac acl policy registered
kbd1 at kbdmux0
cryptosoft0: <software crypto="">on motherboard
acpi0: <080808 RSDT1821> on motherboard
acpi0: [ITHREAD]
acpi0: Power Button (fixed)
acpi0: reservation of ffc00000, 300000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of fee00000, 1000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 0, a0000 (3) failed
acpi0: reservation of 100000, d7f00000 (3) failed
Timecounter "ACPI-safe" frequency 3579545 Hz quality 850
acpi_timer0: <24-bit timer at 3.579545MHz> port 0x808-0x80b on acpi0
pcib0: <acpi host-pci="" bridge="">port 0xcf8-0xcff on acpi0
pci0: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib0
uhci0: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">port 0x8400-0x841f irq 16 at device 26.0 on pci0
uhci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci0: [ITHREAD]
usb0: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on uhci0
usb0: USB revision 1.0
uhub0: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb0
uhub0: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci1: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">port 0x8480-0x849f irq 21 at device 26.1 on pci0
uhci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci1: [ITHREAD]
usb1: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on uhci1
usb1: USB revision 1.0
uhub1: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb1
uhub1: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci2: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">port 0x8800-0x881f irq 19 at device 26.2 on pci0
uhci2: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci2: [ITHREAD]
usb2: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on uhci2
usb2: USB revision 1.0
uhub2: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb2
uhub2: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci0: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xfbffec00-0xfbffefff irq 18 at device 26.7 on pci0
ehci0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ehci0: [ITHREAD]
usb3: EHCI version 1.0
usb3: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb0 usb1 usb2
usb3: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci0
usb3: USB revision 2.0
uhub3: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb3
uhub3: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
pci0: <multimedia>at device 27.0 (no driver attached)
pcib1: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 17 at device 28.0 on pci0
pci6: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib1
pcib2: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 28.1 on pci0
pci5: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib2
pcib3: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 18 at device 28.2 on pci0
pci4: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib3
re0: <realtek 8168="" 8168b="" 8168c="" 8168cp="" 8168d="" 8111b="" 8111c="" 8111cp="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 0xf7eff000-0xf7efffff,0xf7ee0000-0xf7eeffff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci4
re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00400000
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: MII without any phy!
device_attach: re0 attach returned 6
pcib4: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 19 at device 28.3 on pci0
pci3: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib4
atapci0: <jmicron jmb368="" udma133="" controller="">port 0xcc00-0xcc07,0xc880-0xc883,0xc800-0xc807,0xc480-0xc483,0xc400-0xc40f irq 19 at device 0.0 on pci3
atapci0: [ITHREAD]
ata2: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci0
ata2: [ITHREAD]
pcib5: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">irq 16 at device 28.5 on pci0
pci2: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib5
re1: <realtek 8168="" 8168b="" 8168c="" 8168cp="" 8168d="" 8111b="" 8111c="" 8111cp="" pcie="" gigabit="" ethernet="">port 0xb800-0xb8ff mem 0xf7dff000-0xf7dfffff,0xf7de0000-0xf7deffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
re1: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
re1: MAC rev. 0x00400000
re1: PHY write failed
re1: PHY write failed
re1: MII without any phy!
device_attach: re1 attach returned 6
uhci3: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">port 0x8880-0x889f irq 23 at device 29.0 on pci0
uhci3: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci3: [ITHREAD]
usb4: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on uhci3
usb4: USB revision 1.0
uhub4: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb4
uhub4: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci4: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">port 0x8c00-0x8c1f irq 19 at device 29.1 on pci0
uhci4: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci4: [ITHREAD]
usb5: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on uhci4
usb5: USB revision 1.0
uhub5: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb5
uhub5: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
uhci5: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">port 0x9000-0x901f irq 18 at device 29.2 on pci0
uhci5: [GIANT-LOCKED]
uhci5: [ITHREAD]
usb6: <uhci (generic)="" usb="" controller="">on uhci5
usb6: USB revision 1.0
uhub6: <intel 1="" 9="" uhci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 1.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb6
uhub6: 2 ports with 2 removable, self powered
ehci1: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">mem 0xfbfff800-0xfbfffbff irq 23 at device 29.7 on pci0
ehci1: [GIANT-LOCKED]
ehci1: [ITHREAD]
usb7: EHCI version 1.0
usb7: companion controllers, 2 ports each: usb4 usb5 usb6
usb7: <ehci (generic)="" usb="" 2.0="" controller="">on ehci1
usb7: USB revision 2.0
uhub7: <intel 1="" 9="" ehci="" root="" hub,="" class="" 0,="" rev="" 2.00="" 1.00,="" addr="">on usb7
uhub7: 6 ports with 6 removable, self powered
pcib6: <acpi pci-pci="" bridge="">at device 30.0 on pci0
pci1: <acpi pci="" bus="">on pcib6
ath0: <atheros 5212="">mem 0xfdcd0000-0xfdcdffff irq 22 at device 1.0 on pci1
ath0: [ITHREAD]
ath0: WARNING: using obsoleted if_watchdog interface
ath0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:3d:c1:b3:cd
ath0: mac 5.9 phy 4.3 radio 4.6
vgapci0: <vga-compatible display="">mem 0xfc000000-0xfcffffff,0xd8000000-0xdfffffff irq 23 at device 2.0 on pci1
fwohci0: <via fire="" ii="" (vt6306)="">port 0xac00-0xac7f mem 0xfdcff800-0xfdcfffff irq 20 at device 7.0 on pci1
fwohci0: [FILTER]
fwohci0: OHCI version 1.10 (ROM=1)
fwohci0: No. of Isochronous channels is 4.
fwohci0: EUI64 00:8f:13:00:3d:cb:05:00
fwohci0: Phy 1394a available S400, 2 ports.
fwohci0: Link S400, max_rec 2048 bytes.
firewire0: <ieee1394(firewire) bus="">on fwohci0
fwe0: <ethernet over="" firewire="">on firewire0
if_fwe0: Fake Ethernet address: 02:8f:13:cb:05:00
fwe0: Ethernet address: 02:8f:13:cb:05:00
fwip0: <ip over="" firewire="">on firewire0
fwip0: Firewire address: 00:8f:13:00:3d:cb:05:00 @ 0xfffe00000000, S400, maxrec 2048
sbp0: <sbp-2 scsi="" over="" firewire="">on firewire0
dcons_crom0: <dcons configuration="" rom="">on firewire0
dcons_crom0: bus_addr 0xd4118000
fwohci0: Initiate bus reset
fwohci0: BUS reset
fwohci0: node_id=0xc800ffc0, gen=1, CYCLEMASTER mode
isab0: <pci-isa bridge="">at device 31.0 on pci0
isa0: <isa bus="">on isab0
atapci1: <intel ahci="" controller="">port 0x9880-0x9887,0x9800-0x9803,0x9480-0x9487,0x9400-0x9403,0x9080-0x909f mem 0xfbfff000-0xfbfff7ff irq 19 at device 31.2 on pci0
atapci1: [ITHREAD]
atapci1: AHCI Version 01.20 controller with 6 ports detected
ata3: <ata 0="" channel="">on atapci1
ata3: [ITHREAD]
ata4: <ata 1="" channel="">on atapci1
ata4: [ITHREAD]
ata5: <ata 2="" channel="">on atapci1
ata5: [ITHREAD]
ata6: <ata 3="" channel="">on atapci1
ata6: [ITHREAD]
ata7: <ata 4="" channel="">on atapci1
ata7: [ITHREAD]
ata8: <ata 5="" channel="">on atapci1
pci0: <serial bus,="" smbus="">at device 31.3 (no driver attached)
acpi_button0: <power button="">on acpi0
speaker0: <pc speaker="">port 0x61 on acpi0
fdc0: <floppy drive="" controller="" (fde)="">port 0x3f0-0x3f5,0x3f7 irq 6 drq 2 on acpi0
fdc0: [FILTER]
atkbdc0: <keyboard controller="" (i8042)="">port 0x60,0x64 irq 1 on acpi0
atkbd0: <at keyboard="">irq 1 on atkbdc0
kbd0 at atkbd0
atkbd0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
atkbd0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: <ps 2="" mouse="">irq 12 on atkbdc0
psm0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
psm0: [ITHREAD]
psm0: model MouseMan+, device ID 0
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0: configured irq 4 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio0: port may not be enabled
sio0: <16550A-compatible COM port> port 0x3f8-0x3ff irq 4 flags 0x10 on acpi0
sio0: type 16550A
sio0: [FILTER]
cpu0: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
est0: <enhanced speedstep="" frequency="" control="">on cpu0
est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6164a2306004a23
device_attach: est0 attach returned 6
p4tcc0: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu0
cpu1: <acpi cpu="">on acpi0
est1: <enhanced speedstep="" frequency="" control="">on cpu1
est: CPU supports Enhanced Speedstep, but is not recognized.
est: cpu_vendor GenuineIntel, msr 6164a2306004a23
device_attach: est1 attach returned 6
p4tcc1: <cpu frequency="" thermal="" control="">on cpu1
pmtimer0 on isa0
ata0 at port 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 irq 14 on isa0
ata0: [ITHREAD]
ata1 at port 0x170-0x177,0x376 irq 15 on isa0
ata1: [ITHREAD]
ppc0: parallel port not found.
sc0: <system console="">at flags 0x100 on isa0
sc0: VGA <16 virtual consoles, flags=0x300>
sio1: configured irq 3 not in bitmap of probed irqs 0
sio1: port may not be enabled
vga0: <generic isa="" vga="">at port 0x3c0-0x3df iomem 0xa0000-0xbffff on isa0
Timecounters tick every 1.000 msec
IPsec: Initialized Security Association Processing.
firewire0: 1 nodes, maxhop <= 0, cable IRM = 0 (me)
firewire0: bus manager 0 (me)
acd0: DVDR <optiarc dvd="" rw="" ad-7220a="" 1.01="">at ata2-master UDMA66
ad12: 76319MB <wdc wd800aajs-00waa0="" 58.01d58="">at ata6-master SATA300
SMP: AP CPU #1 Launched!
Trying to mount root from ufs:/dev/ad12s1a</wdc></optiarc></generic></system></cpu></enhanced></acpi></cpu></enhanced></acpi></ps></at></keyboard></floppy></pc></power></serial></ata></ata></ata></ata></ata></ata></intel></isa></pci-isa></dcons></sbp-2></ip></ethernet></ieee1394(firewire)></via></vga-compatible></atheros></acpi></acpi></intel></ehci></ehci></intel></uhci></uhci></intel></uhci></uhci></intel></uhci></uhci></realtek></acpi></acpi></ata></jmicron></acpi></acpi></realtek></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></acpi></multimedia></intel></ehci></ehci></intel></uhci></uhci></intel></uhci></uhci></intel></uhci></uhci></acpi></acpi></software></version></lahf></lm></sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,sse4.1,<b26></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe> 

and this is when it loads properly

Copyright (c) 1992-2009 The FreeBSD Project.
Copyright (c) 1979, 1980, 1983, 1986, 1988, 1989, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994
        The Regents of the University of California. All rights reserved.
FreeBSD is a registered trademark of The FreeBSD Foundation.
FreeBSD 7.1-RELEASE-p3 #0: Tue Mar 17 15:41:49 EDT 2009
    sullrich@freebsd7-releng_1_2_3-pre-testing.pfsense.org:/usr/obj.pfSense/usr/pfSensesrc/src/sys/pfSense_SMP.7
Timecounter "i8254" frequency 1193182 Hz quality 0
CPU: Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Duo CPU     E7400  @ 2.80GHz (2800.11-MHz 686-class CPU)
  Origin = "GenuineIntel"  Id = 0x1067a  Stepping = 10
  Features=0xbfebfbff <fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>Features2=0x408e39d<sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,sse4.1,<b26>>
  AMD Features=0x20000000 <lm>AMD Features2=0x1 <lahf>Cores per package: 2
real memory  = 3623550976 (3455 MB)
avail memory = 3541725184 (3377 MB)
MPTable: <template etemplate =""></template></lahf></lm></sse3,dtes64,mon,ds_cpl,est,tm2,ssse3,cx16,xtpr,pdcm,sse4.1,<b26></fpu,vme,de,pse,tsc,msr,pae,mce,cx8,apic,sep,mtrr,pge,mca,cmov,pat,pse36,clflush,dts,acpi,mmx,fxsr,sse,sse2,ss,htt,tm,pbe>

[wallabybob]

There have been a number of source code changes to the FreeBSD re driver since FreeBSD 7.1 was released. In particular the following look as if they might be relevant to your issue:

r187417:
  Sometimes RTL8168B seems to take long time to access GMII registers
  in device attach phase. Double GMII register access timeout value
  to fix the issue.

MFC r186210:
  For RTL8168C SPIN2 controllers, make sure to take the controller
  out of sleep mode prior to accessing to PHY. This should fix device
  attach failure seen on these controllers. Also enable the sleep
  mode when device is put into sleep state.

Perhaps you might be able to persuade the pfSense developers to sync their re driver with the latest on the RELENG_7 branch in the FreeBSD repository.

[wonslung]

yah, that would be awesome…..is it possible to compile custom kernels for pfsense like you do with freebsd or am i totally at the devs mercy?