[if_re.c] INTEL mini/itx DE945GSEJT

[Jonas Lund]

If you've just purchased a new board i think you could try it out as
you install it. Apart from the mentioned things boards usually
contains the same chipsets as other boards so chances are it'll work.
And if not directly then under some compat mode (Altho could be with
reduced speed)

And if realtek does provide source for their drivers i'd prolly not be
too worried. The shitties drivers i've used was some crap produced by
some random chineese chip-shop that had delay(10000) or something
alike it inside kernel-code (That's right.. it waited 10 seconds in
kernel for no apperant reason!) but the code was functional with this
removed.

2009/8/5 Frank Reppin <frank at undermydesk.org>:
> 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
>
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>
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>
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