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Date:      Thu, 2 Oct 2008 12:01:18 +0200
From:      "Popof Popof" <popof.fpn@gmail.com>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Realtek 8111C?
Message-ID:  <9196e72b0810020301se3056c1u17716d95575e638b@mail.gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <20081001170712.GA1391@phenom.cordula.ws>
References:  <48D3D0A8.7070504@mindling.com> <1221876046.4625.4.camel@laptop1.herveybayaustralia.com.au> <48D53DA1.2040808@mindling.com> <200809211527.53755.af300wsm@gmail.com> <48D85B3A.8070706@mindling.com> <340a29540809302126m6196e828u4e8949cc092847bb@mail.gmail.com> <20081001170712.GA1391@phenom.cordula.ws>

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I hav a mobo with the same NIC, I use it on a FreeNAS box that's runing a
version based on FreeBSD 6.3.
In order to make the NIC work i had to compile the drivers from realtek with
an other FreeBSD box and load the module on startup.
But data transfer from / to my FreeNAS box are slow.

Anyone had the same problem with this NIC / Realtek drivers?
Did someone used the drivers from FreeBSD 7.1 with (or without) FreeNAS ?
Does the transfer speed are correct ?

2008/10/1 cpghost <cpghost@cordula.ws>

> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 10:26:14PM -0600, Andrew Falanga wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 8:58 PM, Sebastian <list@mindling.com> wrote:
> > > Andrew Falanga wrote:
> > >>
> > >> On Saturday 20 September 2008 12:14:57 Sebastian wrote:
> > >>
> > >>>
> > >>> Da Rock wrote:
> > >>>
> > >>>>
> > >>>> I have used the compiled driver on 6.3 with success- but then I've
> used
> > >>>> the driver linked in a post to drivers list. 7.0 is a no go.
> > >>>>
> > >>>
> > >>> I tried to compile the current OEM Realtek driver under (v176) on
> fbsd
> > >>> 6.3, but couldn't get it to build. My foo is a little thin here. :)
> > >>>
> > >>>
> > >>
> > >> Where did you get this OEM driver?
> > >>
> > >
> > > The oem driver can be found here:
> > >
> > >
> http://www.realtek.com.tw/downloads/downloadsView.aspx?Langid=1&PNid=13&PFid=5&Level=5&Conn=4&DownTypeID=3&GetDown=false
> > >
> > > It builds just fine on 6.3, once I read the file manual on how to build
> a
> > > kernel module.
> > >
> > > So far no problems running it with a fair amount of traffic.
> >
> > Awesome!  Thanks.  If I've been understanding another thread on here,
> > it sounds like there's a FreeBSD driver coming in 7.1.
>
> Just for the record: the re(4) driver on my FreeBSD 7.1-PRERELEASE #0:
> Fri Sep 26 14:43:33 CEST 2008 (both i386 and amd64) now runs like a
> charm on a RealTek 8111C on-board NIC (at least with 100baseTX, I didn't
> test with Gigabit):
>
> re0: <RealTek 8168/8168B/8168C/8168CP/8111B/8111C/8111CP PCIe Gigabit
>       Ethernet> port 0xe800-0xe8ff mem 0xfdfff000-0xfdffffff,
>      0xfdfe0000-0xfdfeffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci2
> re0: Chip rev. 0x3c000000
> re0: MAC rev. 0x00200000
> miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
> rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211B media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
> rgephy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
>          1000baseT-FDX, auto
>
> $ ifconfig re0
> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1460
>         options=389b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,
>                WOL_UCAST,WOL_MCAST,WOL_MAGIC>
>         ether 00:21:85:XX:YY:ZZ
>        inet6 fe80::221:85ff:feXX:YYYZZ%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>        inet 192.168.254.60 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.254.255
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>        status: active
>
> $ lspci -v
>
> (...)
>
> 02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B
> PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 02)
>        Subsystem: Micro-Star International Co., Ltd. Unknown device 501c
>        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 17
>        I/O ports at e800
>        Memory at fdfff000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
>        Memory at fdfe0000 (64-bit, prefetchable)
>        Expansion ROM at feaf0000 [disabled]
>        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
>        Capabilities: [50] Message Signalled Interrupts: Mask- 64bit+
>                           Queue=0/1 Enable-
>        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
>        Capabilities: [b0] MSI-X: Enable- Mask- TabSize=2
>        Capabilities: [d0] Vital Product Data <?>
>
> > Andy
> >
> > --
> >  A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
> > Q: Why is it such a bad thing?
> > A: Top-posting.
> > Q: What is the most annoying thing on usenet and in e-mail?
>
> -cpghost.
>
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