Re: Anyone play with the NanoPi R3S-LTS?

On 9/22/2025 05:28, Jonathan Chen wrote:
> On 22/09/2025 13:46, Karl Denninger wrote:
>> Found here: https://www.friendlyelec.com/index.php?route=product/ 
>> product&path=69&product_id=311
>>
>> They of course talk Linux but I'm rather curious if anyone has tried 
>> to boot FreeBSD on it.
>>
>> They /claim /it has the capacity to actually run Gigabit speeds 
>> routing through both ports and at that price, well.... yeah that 
>> would be a nice one to build a nanobsd image for it.  Of course with 
>> no serial it has to come up on the HDMI port, which could be trouble.
>
> I had one running with 14-STABLE, using u-boot some time ago. I can't 
> remember whether HDMI worked; but I do remember that I could only get 
> the onboard ethernet working. The PCIe ethernet I couldn't get 
> working, even after tinkering with net/realtek-re-kmod. The speed 
> wasn't quite Gigabit speeds, but decent - IIRC TCP offloading wasn't 
> present.
>
> It was a bit fiddly trying to load the eMMC with a bootable image.
>
> Cheers.

If the PCIe network interface won't come up then, well... oh well.  And 
that one is a RealTek chip?  Hard pass; I've had too many issues with 
those.  They work fine under Windows but definitely are an "avoid" 
chipset in my opinion when it comes to FreeBSD and anything that has to 
route.

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