[if_re.c] INTEL mini/itx DE945GSEJT

[Frank Reppin]

Hi all,

just purchased the above mentioned board:

http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm

and this board claims to come with a so called:

   Realtek 8111D

network (10/100/1000m) chipset onboard.

Digging in -current and google.com/ncr revealed that this certain 
board/nic seems to be not supported by the -CURRENT- if_re.c provided
by FreeBSD. Some further investigations reveals that OpenBSD claims to
support this (most prolly) precious chipset (8111D) within their 4.5 
release:

   http://www.openbsd.org/45.html
   (searching for 8111D will point you to re(4))

My question(s) is(are):

   a) does anyone run this board without flaws on fbsd-current
      with its intergrated 8111D NIC
      ( my 'failover' option is to run this board using xl thanks to
        it's pci slot)

   b) if a) doesn't apply - how did you get it working on current/stable
      without another driver

   c) OpenBSD mentions this one ( 8111D support ) in their release notes
      for a _stable_ version ( 4.5 )- but I cannot even see support for
      this specific device in FreeBSD trunk/head

   d) realtek itself does provide drivers for even FreeBSD (sources)...
      ... are there any experiences using those drivers

To make a long story short/and to be honest...

... I'd like to see native support in at least -current.

TIA,

frank reppin

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