RTL8111/8168B NIC & FreeBSD

[David Rufino]

Hello,

I'm having similar problems using an onboard RTL 8168B NIC. I noticed
there were some recent changes to the re0 driver, so I tried -STABLE
(r258961). The device is detected but can't send or receive packets.
Interestingly it doesn't work in Debian wheezy, but does work fine in
Windows 7 with latest drivers. I'm happy to assist in any way. Here's
some relevant debugging information

pciconf -l -v

re0 at pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81161019 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x0c hdr=0x00
  vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
  device      = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
  class        = network
  subclass  = ethernet

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F/G PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xfea00000-0xfea00fff,0xd0800000-0xd0803fff irq 32
at device 0.0 on pci1
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: ASPM disabled
re0: Chip rev. 0x4c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
re0: Ethernet address: 74:27:ea:d3:de:5a

Thanks!,
David

>
> Hello,
>
> we are trying to install FreeBSD on a computer that uses the NIC mentioned
> above. The NIC is running under linux without problems, which we've tested
> for several days transferring several GB of data.