From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Oct 8 15:31:09 2010 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A00CA106566B for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:31:09 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si) Received: from mail.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80::25]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1DAA28FC19 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 15:31:09 +0000 (UTC) Received: from amavis-proxy-ori.ijs.si (localhost [IPv6:::1]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP id D16FB1D1C70 for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:31:07 +0200 (CEST) Authentication-Results: mail.ijs.si; dkim=pass (1024-bit key) header.i=@ijs.si; dkim-adsp=pass DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/simple; d=ijs.si; h= message-id:content-transfer-encoding:content-type:content-type :mime-version:user-agent:date:date:subject:subject:organization :from:from:received:received:received; s=jakla2; t=1286551865; x=1289143865; bh=smBcI4WWooOtAfAHobl6IPE2tiqIVpiQsA71Lxlgw4k=; b= ce/OzvvdyhNbbsVDYV8AGdjySuOhJI10oVDUYafyV2Qn1KuLX1waND92HmBNaDDo K1jopEETNr6DJx+gXSdxivIsC+ruhKs3L19U3W/KuqVDWg1lKOM1uyig+GqZohwa UYNJRP8WdYgsr/ELISsmJUqD5KxbBYy/vObH/ri6r2U= X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at ijs.si Received: from mail.ijs.si ([127.0.0.1]) by amavis-proxy-ori.ijs.si (mail.ijs.si [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10012) with ESMTP id VWRjFAE5V_Hn for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:31:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from edina.ijs.si (unknown [IPv6:2001:1470:ff80:0:2e0:81ff:fe72:51d]) by mail.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTP for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:31:05 +0200 (CEST) Received: from neli.ijs.si (neli.ijs.si [193.2.4.95]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by edina.ijs.si (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 6C63922F2BD for ; Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:31:05 +0200 (CEST) From: Mark Martinec Organization: J. Stefan Institute To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2010 17:31:03 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.13.5 (FreeBSD/8.1-RELEASE; KDE/4.5.1; amd64; ; ) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <201010081731.04127.Mark.Martinec+freebsd@ijs.si> Subject: Support for newer Ethernet chips in RE(4) driver? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 08 Oct 2010 15:31:09 -0000 The current re(4) Realtek Ethernet adapter driver supports the 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E chips, but lacks support for newer Realtek network interface controllers such as RTL8111 C/E/D, the RTL8168 series and some other. This is unfortunate as the RTL8111E and RTL8111D controllers found their way (in singles or in pairs) into the current families of GigaByte motherboards (such as GA-X58A-UD9/7/5/3R, GA-H55M*, ...), and RTL8111C found its way into Asus motherboards (such as P6T), and quite likely into other newer products. An updated re driver source for FreeBSD 8.0 is available from the Realtek's web site ( http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/ ) and claims to add support for chips and chipsets: RTL8111/RTL8111B/RTL8111C/RTL8111CP/RTL8111D(L)/RTL8111DP/RTL8111E RTL8168/RTL8168B/RTL8168C/RTL8168CP/RTL8168D/RTL8168E RTL8169S/RTL8169SB/RTL8169SC RTL8101E/RTL8102E/RTL8103E/RTL8401E/RTL8105E I tested the new Realtek driver with RTL8111E on FreeBSD 8.1-RELEASE, works well. Any chance of importing the updated driver (or adding support for newer chips in some other way) into CURRENT so that it could find its way to the 9.0 ? Mark