From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Sep 20 02:04:54 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 74198106564A for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:04:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from angel.comcen.com.au (angel.comcen.com.au [203.23.236.69]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3A41A8FC08 for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:04:54 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au) Received: from [192.168.0.185] (unknown [202.172.126.254]) by angel.comcen.com.au (Postfix) with ESMTP id 98D125C2E72A for ; Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:01:23 +1000 (EST) From: Da Rock To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: References: <48D3D0A8.7070504@mindling.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 12:00:46 +1000 Message-Id: <1221876046.4625.4.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.12.3 (2.12.3-5.fc8) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-comcen_com_au-MailScanner-Information: Please contact the ISP for more information X-MailScanner-ID: 98D125C2E72A.37544 X-comcen_com_au-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-comcen_com_au-MailScanner-From: rock_on_the_web@comcen.com.au X-Spam-Status: No Subject: Re: Realtek 8111C? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Sep 2008 02:04:54 -0000 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: 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 metric 0 mtu 1500 > options=389b > ether 00:1d:92:f4:02:38 > inet 10.0.0.213 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.0.0.255 > media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) > 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!