From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Sep 19 17:58:52 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9C03E106566B for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:58:52 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (unknown [IPv6:2a01:170:102f::2]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 015BA8FC1F for ; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:58:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from olli@lurza.secnetix.de) Received: from lurza.secnetix.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3) with ESMTP id m8JHwoV2010863; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:58:50 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from oliver.fromme@secnetix.de) Received: (from olli@localhost) by lurza.secnetix.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id m8JHwmak010862; Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:58:48 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from olli) Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:58:48 +0200 (CEST) Message-Id: <200809191758.m8JHwmak010862@lurza.secnetix.de> From: Oliver Fromme To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sebastian@mindling.com In-Reply-To: <48D3D0A8.7070504@mindling.com> X-Newsgroups: list.freebsd-questions User-Agent: tin/1.8.3-20070201 ("Scotasay") (UNIX) (FreeBSD/6.4-PRERELEASE-20080904 (i386)) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Greylist: Sender IP whitelisted, not delayed by milter-greylist-2.1.2 (lurza.secnetix.de [127.0.0.1]); Fri, 19 Sep 2008 19:58:50 +0200 (CEST) Cc: Subject: Re: Realtek 8111C? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG, sebastian@mindling.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2008 17:58:52 -0000 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? > > I picked up a nice little Atom board to use as a low-power NAS, and > unfortunately just assumed the onboard Realtek NIC was supported. > Unfortunately I don't have a PCI slot on this mobo to use a different NIC. What vendor ID and product ID, exactly? ("pciconf -lv" will tell.) I'm asking because the re(4) driver seem to contain support for several different chips that are all identified as "8111C", but work slightly differently. So it is important to know whether your version of that NIC is already covered, or whether it has a product ID that the driver doesn't know about yet. As far as I can tell from the repository history, the driver is well maintained. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd One Unix to rule them all, One Resolver to find them, One IP to bring them all and in the zone to bind them.