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Date:      Sun, 15 Aug 2010 20:44:37 +0200
From:      "C. P. Ghost" <cpghost@cordula.ws>
To:        sg <obsidian69@idnet.com>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 811c LAN driver avail. on FreeBSD 8.1
Message-ID:  <AANLkTikCeJmP4sjpTXFYexCEv5D0WuEU_9_TWYT6YAbE@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <4C6824DD.1010409@idnet.com>
References:  <4C6824DD.1010409@idnet.com>

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On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 7:33 PM, sg <obsidian69@idnet.com> wrote:
> =A0I cannot see this listed in the H/W compat. list but I had heard it is=
n't
> always up to date so thought I'd ask.
>
> Want to build a NAS using FreeBSD/ZFS/Raid-Z on Gigabyte MA-785GT-UD3H ba=
se
> but it uses Realtek 8111c Gige LAN H/W.

Using an on-board RealTek 8111C on an MSI K9A2GM-FIH motherboard
here without problems:

dmesg reports:

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff,0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff irq 17
at device 0.0 on pci2
re0: Using 1 MSI messages
re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
1000baseT-FDX, auto

and pciconf -lv:

re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=3D0x020000 card=3D0x501c1462 chip=3D0x816810ec rev=3D=
0x02 hdr=3D0x00
    vendor     =3D 'Realtek Semiconductor'
    device     =3D 'Gigabit Ethernet NIC(NDIS 6.0) (RTL8168/8111/8111c)'
    class      =3D network
    subclass   =3D ethernet

ifconfig re0's options:

re0: flags=3D8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1460
options=3D389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,=
WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>

> Sean Gillings

-cpghost.

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