RTL8168/8111 PCI express support

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Jun 11, 2008 at 09:13:24AM +0200, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:
 > On 6/11/08, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
 > > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 03:11:22PM -0700, Jeremy Chadwick wrote:
 > >  > On Tue, Jun 10, 2008 at 11:08:05PM +0200, Fernando Apestegu?a wrote:
 > >  > > I sent this mail to freebsd-questions but I got no answer. I hope you
 > >  > > can help me.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > I got a computer with an RTL8168/8111 PCI Express NIC. It is shown in
 > >  > > pciconf but it is not seen by FreeBSD 7. I'm using i386 arch.
 > >  > >
 > >  > > I have re and rl drivers compiled in the kernel (stock GENERIC kernel,
 > >  > > actually).
 > >  > >
 > >  > > What do I need to make the NIC work properly?
 > >  >
 > >  > CC'ing PYUN YongHyeon, who should be able to help, since he helps
 > >  > maintain the driver.  :-)
 > >
 > > I don't know which revision of RealTek controller you have. Just
 > > knowing "pciconf -lv" is not enough. Since 7.0 didn't recognize
 > > your controller I guess it could be newer revision from RealTek.
 > > There is a WIP version that try to add support for newer
 > > controllers. In order to try the WIP version you have to update to
 > > latest 7-stable first and apply the following patch.
 > >
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/re.HEAD.20080610
 > >
 > > The patch still have some issues but it should detect/recognize
 > > your controller.
 > 
 > 
 > It makes sense what you say about the new revision cause the whole
 > computer is quite new. In any case I will paste the "pciconf -lv"
 > output just to be sure of the controller I have.
 > 
 > I already have the 7-stable system installed with the kernel sources
 > installed from sysinstall. Do I need any update of the source code?
 > 

If you use 7-stable, you may not have to update again.
Just apply patche above and let me know the result.

 > Thanks in advance.
 > 
 > >
 > >  >
 > >  > I'd recommend you start by providing pciconf -lv output here.
 > >  >
 > >  > --
 > >  > | Jeremy Chadwick                                jdc at parodius.com |
 > >  > | Parodius Networking                       http://www.parodius.com/ |
 > >  > | UNIX Systems Administrator                  Mountain View, CA, USA |
 > >  > | Making life hard for others since 1977.              PGP: 4BD6C0CB |
 > >  >

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon