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Date:      Wed, 22 Dec 2010 22:43:48 -0000
From:      "Graeme Dargie" <arab@tangerine-army.co.uk>
To:        "Mike Clarke" <jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   RE: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?
Message-ID:  <01FB8F39BAD0BD49A6D0DA8F7897392904F800@Mercury.galaxy.lan.lcl>
In-Reply-To: <201012222146.17757.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>
References:  <201012222146.17757.jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk>

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Clarke [mailto:jmc-freebsd2@milibyte.co.uk]=20
Sent: 22 December 2010 21:46
To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject: Which network driver for RTL8211 or 8201 NIC's?


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=20
majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and=20
RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the=20
release notes=20
<http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET>. I see=20
that the strings RTL8211C(L) and RTL8201L (but not EL) appear=20
in /usr/src/sys/dev/rgephy.c and rlphy.c but the man page for the rl=20
driver only mentions RealTek 8129/8139 and I'm not sure which driver is=20
built from rgephy.c.

Am I going to have problems if I get a motherboard with one of these=20
NIC's?

--=20
Mike Clarke
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I have an am2+ board in a machine with a realtek card and it is using
the re driver, might be worth having a look there.

Regards

Graeme=20




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