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

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Aug 29, 2008 at 07:49:20AM +0200, Bernt Hansson wrote:
 > > 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
 > 
 > Just for the sake of it, I did an upgrade to 7.0-STABLE on 2008-08-20.
 > That killed my network card RTL8111B.

Would you post the output of dmesg and "ifconfig re0"?

 > 
 > >> #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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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon