RTL8111-GR driver for FreeBSD6.4

Troy Beisigl troy at i2bnetworks.com
Thu May 28 17:24:17 UTC 2009


Yep. The 6.4 has the same thing. It looks like it did work. We had the  
Intel MB that had an Intel NIC and it was not supported on 6.4. I had  
ordered up the same MB with the Realtek NIC and just got it this  
morning. Seems to support it fine. Thanks for the posts.

Troy Beisigl




On May 28, 2009, at 2:14 AM, Wojciech Puchar wrote:

>>> says it support RTL8111
>>> but i have FreeBSD 7.1
>>
>> I have a 6.4 machine (about to be retired). On that machine, man 4  
>> re says it supports the RTL8111S, but does not mention the  
>> RTL8111GR. My guess is that
>
> in 7.1 it too says only about "S", i assumed that S and GR are only  
> different chip revisions/different functionality, maybe one have  
> builtin PHY other external etc. etc. but it's software compatible.
>
> That's usual naming scheme of chips, but of course there may be  
> exceptions.
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