Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC

[Lukas Razik]

Hello Jeremy, Sevan and Pyun!

Thanks for your fast answers!
I'm happy to see that it could work with the newest 7.0-STABLE tree because I 
don't want to buy a new NIC which works with FreeBSD. I use FreeBSD for 90% 
(for some years now) and therefore I also bought a 3ware 8006-2LP Hardware-
RAID controller and will buy a second HighPoint 3120 HW-RAID controller (which 
is less expensive) because I had bad experiences with the Fake- (or 
Pseudo-)RAID controllers like the "normal" onboard controllers and others 
(Promise FastTrak 4310 etc.). Now I also have troubles with FreeBSD and the 
ICH9R SATA-controller and it's RAID functionality.
So I don't want to pay more money for special hardware which works with 
FreBSD...

BTW:
Where can I read changes to the drivers (like this one) to be up to date?
Is FreeBSD's CVS Repository the only ressource?

It seems as if there's no new snapshot for the amd64 arch:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/

So I will try 200807 or do you have a better idea?
Maybe I can't test it in the next three weeks :-( but when I come back to home 
then it will be the first I do! :-)

Regards and thanks again!
Lukas



On Monday 11 August 2008 01:44:21 Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2008 at 12:00:58AM +0200, Lukas Razik wrote:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I've a GigaByte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboard with a "RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit
> > Ethernet NIC" and I've read that 7.0-RELEASE / amd64 should recognize
> > these cards (by the "re" driver) but it doesn't in my case.
> >
> > So, does FreeBSD 7.0 work with these NICs or am I out of luck?
>
> Please download a FreeBSD 7.0-STABLE snapshot CD and try it.  The re(4)
> maintainer has added support for many different sub-revisions of this
> NIC (read: same model number, but a completely different hardware
> revision) since the release of 7.0-RELEASE.
>
> ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/
>
> (Or a mirror of your choice, e.g. ftp4.freebsd.org, etc.)

On Monday 11 August 2008 01:09:40 Sevan / Venture37 wrote:
> a working driver which needs testing is available in 7-STABLE
>
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On Monday 11 August 2008 03:55:28 Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
>  > So, does FreeBSD 7.0 work with these NICs or am I out of luck?
>
> It looks like your hardware would be second generation of PCIe
> RTL8168/8111. Try latest 7 stable which might have support for your
> hardware.
>