Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 16:13:00 +0900 From: Yonghyeon PYUN <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Danny Winn <danny.gabriel.winn@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: RTL8111/8168B NIC & FreeBSD Message-ID: <20131104071300.GB1381@michelle.cdnetworks.com> In-Reply-To: <CAK4wwDzyPG93r%2BboXDtS3H4DzNTtsoumBNqbqMboRgi20ws-7A@mail.gmail.com> References: <CAK4wwDzyPG93r%2BboXDtS3H4DzNTtsoumBNqbqMboRgi20ws-7A@mail.gmail.com>
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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: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> 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<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384 > options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6> > inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128 > inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5 > inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 > nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL> > > 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.
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