Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2013 22:40:01 GMT From: "Edward O'Callaghan" <eocallaghan@alterapraxis.com> To: freebsd-gnats-submit@FreeBSD.org Subject: kern/183167: RTL8111/8168 fails to attach. Message-ID: <201310212240.r9LMe1KZ016153@oldred.freebsd.org> Resent-Message-ID: <201310212250.r9LMo30p074552@freefall.freebsd.org>
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>Number: 183167 >Category: kern >Synopsis: RTL8111/8168 fails to attach. >Confidential: no >Severity: non-critical >Priority: low >Responsible: freebsd-bugs >State: open >Quarter: >Keywords: >Date-Required: >Class: sw-bug >Submitter-Id: current-users >Arrival-Date: Mon Oct 21 22:50:02 UTC 2013 >Closed-Date: >Last-Modified: >Originator: Edward O'Callaghan >Release: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 >Organization: Altera Praxis Pty Ltd >Environment: FreeBSD 10.0-BETA1 amd64 >Description: G'day, The network adapter found in this^[1] crappy commodity board fails to attach. The NIC in question seems to be a 'RTL8111/8168 Express Gigabit Ethernet' with the vendor:product id of 10ec:8168. I presume the right driver should be re(4) which claims to support this chipset. If it is any help this MB has a horrible UEFI BIOS. Let me know if there is anything else I can provide? Kind Regards, Edward. [1] - http://www.asus.com/Motherboards/Z87C/ >How-To-Repeat: Try FreeBSD with a 'RTL8111/8168 Express Gigabit Ethernet' NIC. >Fix: It is known that GNU/Linux attaches this NIC and was found to work fine. Possibly just a case of adding the product id to the driver? >Release-Note: >Audit-Trail: >Unformatted:
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