pcie realtek issue (re driver)

[Mike Tancsa]

On 5/29/2012 9:01 PM, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 10:14:27PM -0400, Mike Tancsa wrote:
>> My recent batch of realtek nics seems to have a version that does not
>> work with RELENG_8 or RELENG_9. Anyone know what the issue might be ?
>>
>>
>> re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> at device
>> 0.0 on pci4
>> re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
>> re0: turning off MSI enable bit.
>> re0: ASPM disabled
>> re0: Chip rev. 0x7c800000
>                  ^^^^^^^^^^
> 
> If memory serves me right there would be no known controller for
> revision 0x7c800000.  Actually I wonder how re(4) can attach to
> this unknown device.
> Did you apply local patch?

Hi,
	No, its a stock kernel.  If I add

hw.re.msix_disable=1
hw.re.msi_disable=1

it sort of comes up


          re0 pnpinfo vendor=0x10ec device=0x8168 subvendor=0x10ec
subdevice=0x8168 class=0x020000 at slot=0 function=0
              miibus0
                rgephy0 pnpinfo oui=0xe04c model=0x11 rev=0x2 at phyno=1

re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xfe200000-0xfe200fff,0xf0000000-0xf0003fff irq 18 at
device 0.0 on pci4
re0: Chip rev. 0x28000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
miibus0: <MII bus> on re0
rgephy0: <RTL8169S/8110S/8211 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 10baseT-FDX-flow, 100baseTX,
100baseTX-FDX, 100baseTX-FDX-flow, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-master,
1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, 1000baseT-FDX-flow,
1000baseT-FDX-flow-master, auto, auto-flow
re0: Ethernet address: 00:0a:cd:1c:ba:89

but doing ifconfig re0 up, does not work as dmesg shows

re0: reset never completed!
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed
re0: PHY write failed


re0 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec rev=0x03
hdr=0x00
    vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
    device     = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
    class      = network
    subclass   = ethernet
    bar   [10] = type I/O Port, range 32, base 0xd000, size 256, disabled
    bar   [18] = type Memory, range 64, base 0xfe200000, size 4096, disabled
    bar   [20] = type Prefetchable Memory, range 64, base 0xf0000000,
size 16384, disabled

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