RTL8111/8168B NIC & FreeBSD

[Danny Winn]

Hello,

we are trying to install FreeBSD on a computer that uses the NIC mentioned
above. The NIC is running under linux without problems, which we've tested
for several days transferring several GB of data.

The NIC is neither detected by the FreeBSD installer when attempting to
setup the network, nor after the system installation when booting from HD.
We've tested FreeBSD 8.x, 9.x and 10.x; same issues with this NIC.

We cannot use a different NIC (this one is onboard. The micro ATX mainboard
has no room left for any other device)

pciconf -l -v:

none2 at pci0:3:0:0:    class=0x020000 card=0x81681849 chip=0x816810ec
rev=0x0c hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet

dmesg:

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf3204000-0xf3204fff,0xf3200000-0xf3203fff irq 19 at
device 0.0 on pci3
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: Chip rev. 0x4c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
re0: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000
device_attach: re0 attach returned 6

ifconfig -a:

lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
    options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
    inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
    inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
    inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
    nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

Even though "dmesg" shows the device "re0", it remains unknown to
"ifconfig".

"if_re" is already in the generic kernel, so it can't be loaded via
"kldload" as a module, right?

We've already addressed this problem here:
http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=42952

They recommended to this mailing-list.


Best Regards
Danny