RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

Wojciech Puchar wojtek at wojtek.tensor.gdynia.pl
Thu May 28 09:49:52 UTC 2009


>> says it support RTL8111
>> 
>> but i have FreeBSD 7.1
>
> I have a 6.4 machine (about to be retired). On that machine, man 4 re says it 
> supports the RTL8111S, but does not mention the RTL8111GR. My guess is that

in 7.1 it too says only about "S", i assumed that S and GR are only 
different chip revisions/different functionality, maybe one have builtin 
PHY other external etc. etc. but it's software compatible.

That's usual naming scheme of chips, but of course there may be 
exceptions.


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