Integrated RTL8168/8111 NIC not assigned interface

hamtilla tangel at gmail.com
Mon Nov 24 06:44:52 PST 2008


I upgraded to 7.1-PRERELEASE and it works now.

Thank you!



Peter C. Lai-2 wrote:
> 
> On 2008-11-22 08:09:31AM +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>> On 2008-Nov-21 00:07:26 -0800, hamtilla <tangel at gmail.com> wrote:
>> >I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-i386 on Jetway's NC92-N230 mainboard. The board
>> has
>> >one integrated RTL8168/8111 gigabit NIC as well as an expansion board
>> with
>> >three RTL8168/8111 NICs. Why would the three NICs work while the onboard
>> NIC
>> >does not? 
>> >
>> >none2 at pci0:1:0:0:       class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec
>> >rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
>> >    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>> >    device     = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>> >    class      = network
>> >    subclass   = ethernet
>> >re0 at pci0:2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
>> >hdr=0x00
>> >    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>> >    device     = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
>> >    class      = network
>> >    subclass   = ethernet
>> ...
>> 
>> The on-board NIC is a different type to your expansion cards (note the
>> different 'chip=' values.  Looking at the code, it appears that only
>> some variants of the RTL8168 are supported in 7.x.  Unfortunately,
>> pciconf
>> doesn't report the actual hardware revision, so you can't tell from the
>> pciconf output whether it's supported or not.
>> 
>> Can you report the output of 'pciconf -r pci0:1:0:0 0x40' (which should
>> report the hw revision) and 'pciconf -r pci0:2:4:0 0x40' (which gives
>> me a double-check).
>> 
>> You could try booting -current and see if the on-board NIC works there -
>> the range of supported NICs has changed.
>> 
>> -- 
>> Peter Jeremy
>> Please excuse any delays as the result of my ISP's inability to implement
>> an MTA that is either RFC2821-compliant or matches their claimed
>> behaviour.
> 
> Yes, 7.0-R is pretty old in terms of re(4) work. I believe yongari@
> is still working on this driver. 7.1 is close enough for patching
> with patches from http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/
> 
> Currently development is stifled because he has to basically guess
> the appropriate magic values for various PHY permutations in these 
> 8111C/8168C gigabit cards everyone seems to be putting in their
> motherboards these days.
> 
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