RTL8111/8168B NIC & FreeBSD

[Yonghyeon PYUN]

On Sun, Dec 15, 2013 at 06:46:35AM +0200, Shteryana Shopova wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I hit the same problem with the same chip on FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #0
> r258178 - the card would receive nothing or (perhaps not-so-)random
> crap. ifconfig down/up and disabling RX/TX check-summing makes the
> card work for me as a temporary workaround.
> 

David's controller is RTL8168G.  Are you sure you have the same
controller?  If your controller is RTL8168E-VL(Chip rev.
0x2c800000 in dmesg), try the patch at the following URL.
http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.8168evl.diff

> re0 at pci0:4:0:1:    class=0x020000 card=0x07981025 chip=0x816810ec
> rev=0x14 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
>     device     = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
> 
> cheers,
> Shteryana
> 
> 
> On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 11:31 PM, David Rufino <david.rufino at gmail.com> 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
> >
> > 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.