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Date:      Thu, 4 Sep 2008 19:45:00 +0200
From:      Lukas Razik <freebsd@razik.name>
To:        freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Issue with 7.0-RELEASE and Realtek RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
Message-ID:  <200809041945.08368.freebsd@razik.name>
In-Reply-To: <48A34FF0.3010304@razik.name>
References:  <200808110000.58666.freebsd@razik.name> <48A317D8.5070702@bah.homeip.net> <48A34FF0.3010304@razik.name>

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Hello again!

I'm back home and I still have the issue with my onboard RTL8168 NIC I've 
described here:
http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=0+0+archive/2008/freebsd-
hardware/20080817.freebsd-hardware

As I wrote you in one of my old mails I've tested 
7.0-RELEASE and 7.0-STABLE-200807
and my NIC isn't recognised by both kernel versions.

So I also would like to try more current 7.0-STABLE-200808 but there's still 
no new snapshot for the amd64 architecture on your ftp server:
ftp://ftp.freebsd.org/pub/FreeBSD/snapshots/200808/
Are there no relevant changes done to amd64?

BTW:
Bernt  wrote in his mail (see below) that he has a similar motherboard also 
with a RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC
with revision 1 (my NIC is revision 2 - see below) and his one is recognized 
by 7.0-RELEASE.
In 7.0-STABLE it also doesn't work with his NIC:
http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-hardware/2008-September/005367.html

(How) Can I help you to solve this issue?

Regards,
Lukas


On Wednesday 13 August 2008 23:19:44 Lukas Razik wrote:
> Hello Bernt!
>
> Yes, you're right - that's interesting...
> I only can state that with 7.0-RELEASE and with 7.0-STABLE-200807
> (07/15/08) it doesn't work.
> _But_ on 2008-07-15 there was a change made to the re driver which is
> relevant for the RTL8168 as you can see here:
> http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/cvsweb.cgi/src/sys/dev/re/if_re.c
>
> Maybe with the current if_re.c it works and to test this I could build a
> new kernel from CVS but I come home not until September. :-(
>
> The only difference between our NICs which I see is the revision. Since
> the revision of your chip is 0x01, the NIC's revision on my MoBo is 0x02
> ... Maybe that's the difference?
>
> Thanks for your statement!
>
> Regards,
> Lukas
>
> Bernt Hansson schrieb:
> > Lukas Razik:
> >>Hello!
> >>
> >>I've a GigaByte GA-X48-DQ6 Motherboard with a "RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit
> >>Ethernet NIC" and I've read that 7.0-RELEASE / amd64 should recognize
> >> these cards (by the "re" driver) but it doesn't in my case.
> >
> > I got an Gigabyte GA-MA790FX-DS5 with the same network chip and it's
> > working right out of the box. There are other issues with that
> > motherboard.
> >
> > 7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008
> > root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >
> >
> > re0@pci0:2:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x01
> > hdr=0x00
> >     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> >     device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
> >     class      = network
> >     subclass   = ethernet
> >
> >>#uname -a :
> >>FreeBSD  7.0-RELEASE FreeBSD 7.0-RELEASE #0: Sun Feb 24 10:35:36 UTC 2008
> >>root@driscoll.cse.buffalo.edu:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
> >>
> >>#pciconf -lv :
> >>[...]
> >>none2@pci0:4:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x816810ec
> >>rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> >>    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> >>    device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
> >>    class      = network
> >>    subclass   = ethernet
> >>[...]
> >>
> >>So, does FreeBSD 7.0 work with these NICs or am I out of luck?
> >>
> >>Regards and Many Thanks for your help!
> >>Lukas
> >>
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