Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2008 13:12:54 -0500 From: "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com> To: Shawn Barnhart <swb@grasslake.net> Cc: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Realtek 8111B LAN Chipset Message-ID: <4794E0A6.1070206@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <4794C484.9010005@grasslake.net> References: <47928642.2090707@gmail.com> <4792A17E.9060208@hdk5.net> <4792B383.6010406@gmail.com> <20080120105540.GB22192@cicely12.cicely.de> <4794C484.9010005@grasslake.net>
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-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Shawn Barnhart wrote: > Bernd Walter wrote: >> Realtek has two devices for Gbit PCI: the 8169 and the reduced 8110. >> They are both more or less the same - likely even the same chip >> inside, >> but the later has pins reduced. >> AFAIK the later can't have an external PHY, which you can't have >> anyway >> if there is neither a connector or PHY itself connected on the board. >> The 8168 is the successor for PCI express, with the 8111 being the new >> reduced variant. >> Both PCIe are detected but didn't run stable with our re(4), but it is >> said that the latest driver fixes this and also adds a good speed >> improvement > I bought an 8169 based card due to time and local availability > issues and the re(4) driver sucked it hard in 6.3 and the card > wasn't stable. I ended up with an Intel card which works fine. > > I've noticed that re(4) has recently been overhauled extensively (as > in the last week), will these changes ever get merged back into > 6_STABLE, or do they depend on changes only present in 7.X onward? > > For $20, its barely worth my time to run the thing back to the store > and recent SWMBO de-cluttering regulations require it to be used or > tossed. Pyun says that the patches should work on any 6.3+ set up... I am running 8-current (amd64) and the performance is almost equal to the vendor supplied driver for vista now (if not the same or a little better) -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHlOCmQi2hk2LEXBARAramAJ4tpR34HOoWc54S5X6oG49jzZzJYwCfV/ec KgLnHA9ujWiSLB15b1tDdbs= =wt4w -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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