Re: FYI: Prime X670-P WiFI built in Ethernet detected and basically operational on main [so: 16]

From: Zhenlei Huang <zlei_at_FreeBSD.org>
Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2025 03:25:00 UTC

> On Dec 22, 2025, at 7:37 AM, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> After my kernel update (pkgbase style) today I noticed that the built-in
> ethernet was detected. After the overall update, trying it for some basic
> operation looks to be working. (My context is normally limited to basic
> operation.) Up to this point I'd been using a USB3 dongle for Ethernet
> for this system.
> 
> Extracted from "dmesg -a" output:
> 
> Autoloading module: if_rge
> rge0: <RTL8125> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdf400000-0xdf40ffff,0xdf410000-0xdf413fff at device 0.0 on pci8
> rge0: Ethernet address: REDACTED
> rge0: no link ....
> rge0: link state changed to DOWN
> rge0: link state changed to UP
> Starting Network: lo0 rge0.
> rge0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
>        options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>        ether REDACTED
>        inet REDACTED netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast REDACTED
>        media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>        status: active
>        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> . . .
> rgephy0: <RTL8251/8153 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
> rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto
> 
> 
> ===
> Mark Millard
> marklmi at yahoo.com
> 
> 


The if_rge(4) was committed in main recently [1].

1. 4bf8ce037dc8 if_rge: initial import of if_rge driver from OpenBSD 

Best regards,
Zhenlei