MSI Wind Notebook's network interfaces

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Fri, Sep 05, 2008 at 09:45:08AM +0200, Milan Obuch wrote:
 > Hi,
 > I have new notebook, MSI's Wind, and installed succesfully both FreeBSD-7 
 > and -CURRENT.
 > 
 > In 7.0-RELEASE wired network interface did not work, but after upgrading to 
 > 7-STABLE (now 7.1-PRERELEASE) it work with re driver. There is just one small 
 > uglyness - it's link level address (MAC) is 00:00:00:00:00:00. Needless to 
 > say, Windows initializes this to 00:1d:92:59:f5:8b. I can change it 
 > with 'ifconfig re0 ether 00:1d:92:59:f5:8b', but I would rather let the 
 > driver to find the correct MAC.
 > 
 > While everything works (I am csup'ing sources over its re0, which is a good 
 > test in my experience), if anybody have any idea/patch to test, I would like 
 > to do it.
 > 
 > Some data collected:
 > 
 > ifconfig re0
 > re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
 >         
 > options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
 >         ether 00:00:00:00:00:00
 >         inet 192.168.16.235 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.16.255
 >         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
 >         status: active
 > 
 > pciconf -lcv (part of)
 > re0 at pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x01101462 chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 
 > hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     device     = 'RTL8139/810x Family Fast Ethernet NIC'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 >     cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
 >     cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
 >     cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 2 endpoint IRQ 0
 >     cap 11[ac] = MSI-X supports 2 messages in map 0x20
 >     cap 03[cc] = VPD
 > 
 > dmesg (part of verbose boot)
 > re0: <RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100baseTX> port 0xc000-0xc0ff mem 
 > 0xffd10000-0xffd10fff,0xffd00000-0xffd0ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
 > re0: Reserved 0x1000 bytes for rid 0x18 type 3 at 0xffd10000
 > re0: MSI count : 1
 > re0: Chip rev. 0x34800000
 > re0: MAC rev. 0x00200000
 > miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
 > rlphy0: <RTL8201L 10/100 media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
 > rlphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto
 > re0: bpf attached
 > re0: [MPSAFE]
 > re0: [FILTER]
 > 
 > When not booting verbose, there is also one line telling
 > re0: turning off MSI enable bit.
 > 

re(4) cleared MSI enable bit of configuration register as MSI
wouldn't be used. You can ignore this.

 > This netbook has also wireless interface, but this one does not get detected 
 > (or I have no driver for it), in dmesg there is only line telling
 > pci2: <network> at device 0.0 (no driver attached)
 > 
 > and relevant part of pciconf -lcv is
 > none0 at pci0:2:0:0:       class=0x028000 card=0x68941462 chip=0x819910ec 
 > rev=0x22 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
 >     class      = network
 >     cap 01[40] = powerspec 3  supports D0 D1 D2 D3  current D0
 >     cap 05[50] = MSI supports 1 message, 64 bit
 >     cap 10[70] = PCI-Express 1 legacy endpoint
 > 
 > While currently I have no urge need for wireless connectivity, in the long run 
 > I would like to use it. Currently I can't change card (probably minipci) as 
 > netbook is under warranty, with 'warranty sticker - void if tampered' over 
 > screw.
 > 
 > If anybody had some idea how to fix MAC address initialization for wired 

Would you try attached patch?

 > interface or what driver to use for wireless interface (I will probably try 
 > NDIS, but my experience in this area is limited and previous succesfull try 
 > none), I am all ears.
 > 
 > Regars,
 > Milan

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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--- sys/dev/re/if_re.c.orig	Wed Aug 13 12:40:08 2008
+++ sys/dev/re/if_re.c	Fri Sep  5 17:18:40 2008
@@ -1213,7 +1213,8 @@
 	case RL_HWREV_8102E:
 	case RL_HWREV_8102EL:
 		sc->rl_flags |= RL_FLAG_NOJUMBO | RL_FLAG_INVMAR |
-		    RL_FLAG_PHYWAKE | RL_FLAG_DESCV2 | RL_FLAG_MACSTAT;
+		    RL_FLAG_PHYWAKE | RL_FLAG_PAR | RL_FLAG_DESCV2 |
+		    RL_FLAG_MACSTAT;
 		break;
 	case RL_HWREV_8168_SPIN1:
 	case RL_HWREV_8168_SPIN2: