Date: Sat, 1 May 2021 23:45:03 +0200 From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with realtek NIC Message-ID: <a549a53f-5ad7-314b-44f4-44c74f6d2c54@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <2429724.0dHE6SNnxz@no.place.like.home> References: <202105011909.141J9kQ4068083@server.i805.com.br> <2429724.0dHE6SNnxz@no.place.like.home>
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This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 4880 and 3156) --6xyVe7miRy9Kyz5E3ucbAlCL1LZEpU1l2 Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="PBTiEJUCjdOr3eDfMiGQ2z6kkY1VNCywc"; protected-headers="v1" From: Stefan Esser <se@freebsd.org> To: FreeBSD CURRENT <freebsd-current@freebsd.org> Cc: rizzo@i805.com.br, Greg Rivers <gcr+freebsd-current@tharned.org> Message-ID: <a549a53f-5ad7-314b-44f4-44c74f6d2c54@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Problems with realtek NIC References: <202105011909.141J9kQ4068083@server.i805.com.br> <2429724.0dHE6SNnxz@no.place.like.home> In-Reply-To: <2429724.0dHE6SNnxz@no.place.like.home> --PBTiEJUCjdOr3eDfMiGQ2z6kkY1VNCywc Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252 Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Am 01.05.21 um 21:48 schrieb Greg Rivers via freebsd-current: > On Saturday, 1 May 2021 14:09:46 CDT Nilton Jose Rizzo wrote: >> I using a FreeBSD 14-Current and get random error with my NIC. The wat= chdog timer send a timeout message and I loose connection temporaly. In l= ogs show only this message: >> > Switch to the official Realtek driver in ports: net/realtek-re-kmod The "official" RealTek driver is based on a very old version of "our" driver that was written by Bill Paul. It lacks many features that have been introduced in FreeBSD in the last decade (or even earlier) like NETMAP-Support. The RealTek-driver has special cases for some 50 variants of RealTek Ethernet chips and contains individual firmware patches for nearly all of them. I had started to merge chip specific changes from the official driver to the FreeBSD driver in the hope to get it to support the RTL8125A/B chips. But I have stopped that project for lack of RTL8125 documentation,= especially regarding the PHY, which has its own driver module in our version but not the RealTek code. (And somebody claimed to know that another FreeBSD developer was working on RTL8125 support but did not tell who that might be and whether he had documentation.) Anyway, there are changes regarding the initialization and error recovery= of different RealTek chips in the official driver that could be merged into our version. But I do not know whether these changes require the firmware changes provided by the RealTek driver to correctly work. Regards, STefan --PBTiEJUCjdOr3eDfMiGQ2z6kkY1VNCywc-- --6xyVe7miRy9Kyz5E3ucbAlCL1LZEpU1l2 Content-Type: application/pgp-signature; name="OpenPGP_signature.asc" Content-Description: OpenPGP digital signature Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="OpenPGP_signature" -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- wsB5BAABCAAjFiEEo3HqZZwL7MgrcVMTR+u171r99UQFAmCNy98FAwAAAAAACgkQR+u171r99URL xgf+PEerp2wNRWEzNe0V+rDshhnlA6yXOaIhDWQYhNIUvoohny936NRiJ93BmoW+JIr1iixIFtqj i0P7XkaWQqIH821JoUrJxnZU5BkdxzQbofK88ApsjNXpIe7T4Yl/v7a4JtnFklNDTok8aoLzVK/A AJkxcHG7acwjsiuSRt14kzw7Dhnvarbnhqp+TNeeZKdhuKCZntBEPf9bNamd8iwLQPWnlOhSB4ek YgXk3W/w3jI5NUhN5iak7AZp9yfncfvCSfSdvIp9NEc0LPQ+EQRml+fvHe4eNjLBIzwUUqWkp7Wt lBu8Mptrf3EktcMXmjPQgc1JGSfx3beUkSq+ywcmUw== =szRE -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --6xyVe7miRy9Kyz5E3ucbAlCL1LZEpU1l2--
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