RTL8111/8168B NIC & FreeBSD

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 04:31:56PM -0500, David Rufino wrote:
> 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
> 

Your controller is RTL8168G, latest generation of RTL8168 family.
I don't see issues you mentioned above on RTL8168 engineering
sample board.  Different motherboard vendors shall use different
H/W configuration so that may trigger that issue.  I don't have
any clue about that but I'll let you know if I manage to narrow
down the issue.

> 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.