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Date:      Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +1000
From:      Da Rock <rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 8111C?
Message-ID:  <1221876046.4625.4.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au>
In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809191249290.9608@wonkity.com>
References:  <48D3D0A8.7070504@mindling.com> <alpine.BSF.2.00.0809191249290.9608@wonkity.com>

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On Fri, 2008-09-19 at 13:21 -0600, Warren Block wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Sep 2008, Sebastian wrote:
> 
> > I'd like to confirm my understanding of current status on this NIC. It seems, 
> > based on some searching, the current Realtek driver in FreeBSD doesn't 
> > support the 8111C, and that although the vendor-supplied driver _may_ work 
> > for older 5.x and 6.0 releases (if one can get it compiled, I couldn't), it 
> > doesn't work in 6.3 or 7. So the RTL8111C is effectively not supported. True?
> 
> A new MSI P45 Neo3-FR motherboard with an 8111C shows it working with 
> 7.1-PRERELEASE.  The support for the 8111C is pretty new (July in CVS), 
> but so far it seems okay with this instance.
> 
> uname -a:
> 
> FreeBSD lightning 7.1-PRERELEASE FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0: Fri Sep 19 
> 18:48:47 MDT 2008     root@:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  i386
> 
> dmesg:
> 
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8168B/8168C/8168CP/8111B/8111C/8111CP PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd800-0xd8ff mem 
> 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff,0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4
> 
> pciconf -lv:
> 
> re0@pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x514c1462 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>      vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>      device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>      class      = network
>      subclass   = ethernet
> 
> ifconfig:
> 
> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
> options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
>  	ether 00:1d:92:f4:02:38
>  	inet 10.0.0.213 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255
>  	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>  	status: active

I have used the compiled driver on 6.3 with success- but then I've used
the driver linked in a post to drivers list. 7.0 is a no go.

7.1 support may be due to the request made in the drivers list that I
mentioned.

Other than that, good luck!




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