On Mon, Jan 4, 2010 at 5:48 PM, Ryan Coleman <ryanjcole at me.com> wrote:

> 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

A quick Google search (sorry, not a FreeeBSD guy) brought me to
several articles addressing the issue in 7.1, guessing those are the
same that you found.  Have you tried any of the FreeBSD releases
mentioned in which this is supposedly fixed?

Brian