Date: Wed, 22 Dec 2010 21:46:17 +0000 From: Mike Clarke <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's? Message-ID: <201012222146.17757.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the release notes <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET>. I see that the strings RTL8211C(L) and RTL8201L (but not EL) appear in /usr/src/sys/dev/rgephy.c and rlphy.c but the man page for the rl driver only mentions RealTek 8129/8139 and I'm not sure which driver is built from rgephy.c. Am I going to have problems if I get a motherboard with one of these NIC's? -- Mike Clarke
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?201012222146.17757.jmc-freebsd2>