From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 4 07:13:06 2013 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A9036AE for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:13:06 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from mail-pd0-x22b.google.com (mail-pd0-x22b.google.com [IPv6:2607:f8b0:400e:c02::22b]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-RC4-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 326302E82 for ; Mon, 4 Nov 2013 07:13:06 +0000 (UTC) Received: by mail-pd0-f171.google.com with SMTP id w10so6314477pde.2 for ; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:13:05 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=from:date:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=3kxKOobjbDp1O+hDK4tyGYtm2TF72MX7mj3Cw+BOppQ=; b=e3nCaq9E6ZmQeoiYdsn7oLaYjmT4mhfgzwZEjCnb3BLSIj0PGJFZDQp0TTKWDal38o kLkh0cu/BleAk2gQLEOcmTSYuM7y4lvz8Mr6gKQnEJ14+JmoeuEQGr16r5ZAyr7jHyny q9xzqDnUi4KqqiELTqaCF8fM/DuYePIa/pE5qsWuL6mTY8ZaQ7/WT9ixE1KLA+DAceTw Xw3wwyy8I6v9wO1308/cHKWivx3nf8LQtuoRXFxEHe2Qwl0WChVlZL/onx97FL7hkf6Y I+2KpHR/eFLyY4+JFwzJiw3pgCxKjsfaF9zNiJ7uxA5EMWNjXy6MmDKUIlljzSZeYWdC rBJg== X-Received: by 10.68.29.36 with SMTP id g4mr1214631pbh.145.1383549185897; Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: from pyunyh@gmail.com (lpe4.p59-icn.cdngp.net. [114.111.62.249]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPSA id gf5sm26273715pbc.22.2013.11.03.23.13.03 for (version=TLSv1 cipher=RC4-SHA bits=128/128); Sun, 03 Nov 2013 23:13:05 -0800 (PST) Received: by pyunyh@gmail.com (sSMTP sendmail emulation); Mon, 04 Nov 2013 16:13:00 +0900 From: Yonghyeon PYUN Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:13:00 +0900 To: Danny Winn Subject: Re: RTL8111/8168B NIC & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20131104071300.GB1381@michelle.cdnetworks.com> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.3i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 07:13:06 -0000 On Sun, Nov 03, 2013 at 03:27:03PM +0100, Danny Winn wrote: > Hello, > > we are trying to install FreeBSD on a computer that uses the NIC mentioned > above. The NIC is running under linux without problems, which we've tested > for several days transferring several GB of data. > > The NIC is neither detected by the FreeBSD installer when attempting to > setup the network, nor after the system installation when booting from HD. > We've tested FreeBSD 8.x, 9.x and 10.x; same issues with this NIC. > > We cannot use a different NIC (this one is onboard. The micro ATX mainboard > has no room left for any other device) > > pciconf -l -v: > > none2@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81681849 chip=0x816810ec > rev=0x0c hdr=0x00 > vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.' > device = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller' > class = network > subclass = ethernet > > dmesg: > > re0: port > 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf3204000-0xf3204fff,0xf3200000-0xf3203fff irq 19 at > device 0.0 on pci3 > re0: Using 1 MSI-X message > re0: Chip rev. 0x4c000000 > re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000 > re0: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000 > device_attach: re0 attach returned 6 > > ifconfig -a: > > lo0: flags=8049 metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=600003 > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > nd6 options=21 > > Even though "dmesg" shows the device "re0", it remains unknown to > "ifconfig". > > "if_re" is already in the generic kernel, so it can't be loaded via > "kldload" as a module, right? > > We've already addressed this problem here: > http://forums.freebsd.org/showthread.php?t=42952 > > They recommended to this mailing-list. Just merged required change from HEAD to stable. Try either stable/10 or stable/9.