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

[Lukas Razik]

Hello Bernt!

Yes, you're right - that's interesting...
I only can state that with 7.0-RELEASE and with 7.0-STABLE-200807 
(07/15/08) it doesn't work.
_But_ on 2008-07-15 there was a change made to the re driver which is 
relevant for the RTL8168 as you can see here:
http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c

Maybe with the current if_re.c it works and to test this I could build a 
new kernel from CVS but I come home not until September. :-(

The only difference between our NICs which I see is the revision. Since 
the revision of your chip is 0x01, the NIC's revision on my MoBo is 0x02 ...
Maybe that's the difference?

Thanks for your statement!

Regards,
Lukas


Bernt Hansson schrieb:
> Lukas Razik:
> 
>>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.
> 
> 
> I got an Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 with the same network chip and it's
> working right out of the box. There are other issues with that motherboard.
> 
> 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008
> root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> 
> 
> re0 at pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01
> hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> 
>>#uname -a :
>>FreeBSD  7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008     
>>root at driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>>#pciconf -lv :
>>[...]
>>none2 at pci0:4:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec 
>>rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>>    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>>    device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>>    class      = network
>>    subclass   = ethernet
>>[...]
>>
>>So, does FreeBSD 7.0 work with these NICs or am I out of luck?
>>
>>Regards and Many Thanks for your help!
>>Lukas
>>
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