Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset

[Aryeh M. Friedman]

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Shawn Barnhart wrote:
> Bernd Walter wrote:
>> Realtek has two devices for Gbit PCI: the 8169 and the reduced 8110.
>> They are both more or less the same - likely even the same chip
>> inside,
>> but the later has pins reduced.
>> AFAIK the later can't have an external PHY, which you can't have
>> anyway
>> if there is neither a connector or PHY itself connected on the board.
>> The 8168 is the successor for PCI express, with the 8111 being the new
>> reduced variant.
>> Both PCIe are detected but didn't run stable with our re(4), but it is
>> said that the latest driver fixes this and also adds a good speed
>> improvement
> I bought an 8169 based card due to time and local availability
> issues and the re(4) driver sucked it hard in 6.3 and the card
> wasn't stable.  I ended up with an Intel card which works fine.
>
> I've noticed that re(4) has recently been overhauled extensively (as
> in the last week), will these changes ever get merged back into
> 6_STABLE, or do they depend on changes only present in 7.X onward?
>
> For $20, its barely worth my time to run the thing back to the store
> and recent SWMBO de-cluttering regulations require it to be used or
> tossed.

Pyun says that the patches should work on any 6.3+ set up... I am
running 8-current (amd64) and the performance is almost equal to the
vendor supplied driver for vista now (if not the same or a little better)
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