FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE Realtek 8168/81111 Driver

[YongHyeon PYUN]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 04:12:19PM +0300, Vladimir Vladimir wrote:
> Hi all, 
> 
> I've got an issue with new mother board ASUS P8Z77-M PRO. 
> 
> My FreeBSD 9.0-RELEASE can't set up Network interface for integrated NIC Realtek 8168/81111.
> 
> I have tried FreeBSD-8.2, and FreeBSD-9.0
> I' downloaded new distributions from freebsd.org and  tried boot from them but result the same. FreeBSD couldn't setup re0 interface.
> 
> in the dmesg output :
> 
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xdc104000-0xdc104fff,0xdc100000-0xdc103fff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
> re0: turning off MSI enable bit.
> re0: Chip rev. 0x2c800000
> re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
> 
> so looks like FreeBSD detected NIC, but ifconfig shows loop interface only

There had been lots of re(4) changes since 9.0-RELEASE.
Try 8.3-RELEASE or 9.1-RC1.

> 
> lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
> 	options=3<RXCSUM,TXCSUM>
> 	inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 
> 	inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0xa 
> 	inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
> 	nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> 
> if i try command
> 
> ifconfig re0 create
> ifconfig: SIOCIFCREATE2: Invalid argument
> 
> at the same time Ubuntu works perfect on this mother board, so there aren't any hardware issues
> 
> In the official ASUS documentation for motherboard ASUS P8Z77-M PRO it's got  NIC  Realtek® 8111F, 1 x Gigabit LAN Controller(s)
> http://www.asus.ua/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8Z77M_PRO/#specifications
> 
> May be re(4) driver not updated for this mother board yet?.
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/man.cgi?query=re&apropos=0&sektion=4&manpath=FreeBSD+9.0-stable&arch=default&format=html
> 
> If anybody faced of such issue., let me know.
> 
> Thanks Vlad.