From owner-freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Aug 4 23:29:37 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B983F1065670 for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:29:37 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@undermydesk.org) Received: from amazone.undermydesk.org (amazone.undermydesk.org [213.211.198.100]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 31BA58FC1D for ; Tue, 4 Aug 2009 23:29:36 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from frank@undermydesk.org) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by amazone.undermydesk.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF522A85D for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:13:44 +0200 (CEST) Received: from amazone.undermydesk.org ([213.211.198.100]) by localhost (amazone.undermydesk.org [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id VAvHcr4NJ+zQ for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:13:36 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [192.168.0.74] (p4FD5CF79.dip.t-dialin.net [79.213.207.121]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by amazone.undermydesk.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id B9B7FA85B for ; Wed, 5 Aug 2009 01:13:35 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4A78C0B5.8080808@undermydesk.org> Date: Wed, 05 Aug 2009 01:13:57 +0200 From: Frank Reppin User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (Windows/20090605) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: [if_re.c] INTEL mini/itx DE945GSEJT X-BeenThere: freebsd-hardware@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion of FreeBSD hardware List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 04 Aug 2009 23:29:38 -0000 Hi all, just purchased the above mentioned board: http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm and this board claims to come with a so called: Realtek 8111D network (10/100/1000m) chipset onboard. Digging in -current and google.com/ncr revealed that this certain board/nic seems to be not supported by the -CURRENT- if_re.c provided by FreeBSD. Some further investigations reveals that OpenBSD claims to support this (most prolly) precious chipset (8111D) within their 4.5 release: http://www.openbsd.org/45.html (searching for 8111D will point you to re(4)) My question(s) is(are): a) does anyone run this board without flaws on fbsd-current with its intergrated 8111D NIC ( my 'failover' option is to run this board using xl thanks to it's pci slot) b) if a) doesn't apply - how did you get it working on current/stable without another driver c) OpenBSD mentions this one ( 8111D support ) in their release notes for a _stable_ version ( 4.5 )- but I cannot even see support for this specific device in FreeBSD trunk/head d) realtek itself does provide drivers for even FreeBSD (sources)... ... are there any experiences using those drivers To make a long story short/and to be honest... ... I'd like to see native support in at least -current. TIA, frank reppin -- http://www.undermydesk.org