Date: Mon, 24 Nov 2008 06:44:51 -0800 (PST) From: hamtilla <tangel@gmail.com> To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Integrated RTL8168/8111 NIC not assigned interface Message-ID: <20662192.post@talk.nabble.com> In-Reply-To: <20081121212206.GI58082@cesium.hyperfine.info> References: <20616760.post@talk.nabble.com> <20081121210931.GY51761@server.vk2pj.dyndns.org> <20081121212206.GI58082@cesium.hyperfine.info>
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I upgraded to 7.1-PRERELEASE and it works now. Thank you! Peter C. Lai-2 wrote: > > On 2008-11-22 08:09:31AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote: >> On 2008-Nov-21 00:07:26 -0800, hamtilla <tangel@gmail.com> wrote: >> >I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-i386 on Jetway's NC92-N230 mainboard. The board >> has >> >one integrated RTL8168/8111 gigabit NIC as well as an expansion board >> with >> >three RTL8168/8111 NICs. Why would the three NICs work while the onboard >> NIC >> >does not? >> > >> >none2@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec >> >rev=0x02 hdr=0x00 >> > vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' >> > device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC' >> > class = network >> > subclass = ethernet >> >re0@pci0:2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10 >> >hdr=0x00 >> > vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor' >> > device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC' >> > class = network >> > subclass = ethernet >> ... >> >> The on-board NIC is a different type to your expansion cards (note the >> different 'chip=' values. Looking at the code, it appears that only >> some variants of the RTL8168 are supported in 7.x. Unfortunately, >> pciconf >> doesn't report the actual hardware revision, so you can't tell from the >> pciconf output whether it's supported or not. >> >> Can you report the output of 'pciconf -r pci0:1:0:0 0x40' (which should >> report the hw revision) and 'pciconf -r pci0:2:4:0 0x40' (which gives >> me a double-check). >> >> You could try booting -current and see if the on-board NIC works there - >> the range of supported NICs has changed. >> >> -- >> Peter Jeremy >> Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement >> an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed >> behaviour. > > Yes, 7.0-R is pretty old in terms of re(4) work. I believe yongari@ > is still working on this driver. 7.1 is close enough for patching > with patches from http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/ > > Currently development is stifled because he has to basically guess > the appropriate magic values for various PHY permutations in these > 8111C/8168C gigabit cards everyone seems to be putting in their > motherboards these days. > > -- > =========================================================== > Peter C. Lai | Bard College at Simon's Rock > Systems Administrator | 84 Alford Rd. > Information Technology Svcs. | Gt. Barrington, MA 01230 USA > peter AT simons-rock.edu | (413) 528-7428 > =========================================================== > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/Integrated-RTL8168-8111-NIC-not-assigned-interface-tp20616760p20662192.html Sent from the freebsd-stable mailing list archive at Nabble.com.
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