Re: Openssl errors on FreeBSD (resolved)

From: mike tancsa <mike_at_sentex.net>
Date: Thu, 09 Nov 2023 22:03:17 UTC
On 11/9/2023 5:21 AM, iio7@tutanota.com wrote:
> One of the boxes has a Realtek PCIe 2.5GbE NIC on the motherboard 
> which doesn't work with the re driver from base at all. The card is 
> seen in dmesg, but it does not show up with ifconfig and cannot get an 
> IP assigned.
> The other box has a Realtek PCIe GbE 1Gbit NIC on the motherboard which works with the driver re from base, however not without bugs, this bug particularyhttps://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=166724
>
> So in both cases I switched to the realtek-re-kmod driver from packages.
>
> I have just tried with an Intel card in one of the boxes and the problem is gone.
>
> I suspect there is a problem with the realtek-re-kmod driver.
>
Oh thats excellent news you got to the bottom of it. I would say open a 
PR in case someone comes along and funds some NIC development for this 
hardware.  pciconfig -lcvb re0;  ifconfig -v etc to perhaps show your 
hardware details in the PR

     ---Mike