Subject: Re: kern/35376: re(4) doesn't auto-negotiate properly on GigE
To: None <kern-bug-people@netbsd.org, gnats-admin@netbsd.org,>
From: Steven M. Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 01/08/2007 05:45:01
The following reply was made to PR kern/35376; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
To: Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp>
Cc: gnats-bugs@NetBSD.org, kern-bug-people@NetBSD.org,
	gnats-admin@NetBSD.org, netbsd-bugs@NetBSD.org,
	tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp
Subject: Re: kern/35376: re(4) doesn't auto-negotiate properly on GigE
Date: Sun, 7 Jan 2007 23:52:31 -0500

 On Mon, 8 Jan 2007 13:40:55 +0900
 Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui@ceres.dti.ne.jp> wrote:
 
 > smb@cs.columbia.edu wrote:
 > 
 > >  re0 at pci0 dev 9 function 0: Linksys EG1032 rev. 3 Gigabit
 > > Ethernet re0: interrupting at irq 10
 > >  re0: Ethernet address 00:18:f8:08:fb:a2
 > >  re0: using 256 tx descriptors
 > >  ukphy0 at re0 phy 7: Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface
 > 
 > Hmm, if this uses RTL8169S, does your kernel have rgephy at mii?
 > (it has been added after 3.0 release)
 > ---
 > Izumi Tsutsui
 > 
 No, it doesn't, and the 4.0b2 machine uses Xen, so it didn't have it,
 either -- it's not in the Xen conf files.
 
 I'd suggest that it would probably be a good idea to add a reference to
 rgephy in the re(4) man page, but none of the other Ethernet pages seem
 to have phy references, either...
 
 Let me build a new kernel and test again...
 
 
 		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb