9.0 support for RealTek NIC - re0 driver

[doug at safeport.com]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, lokadamus at gmx.de wrote:

> On 08/29/12 18:14, doug at safeport.com wrote:
>> This card is on a Dell Inspiron. It works perfectly on 8.x. Dmesg on 8.2
>> reports it as:
>>
>>   re0: <RealTek 8101E/8102E/8102EL/8103E PCIe 10/100baseTX>
>> 
>> pciconf:
>> 
>> re0 at pci0:4:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x04341028 chip=0x813610ec rev=0x02 
>> hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
>>     device     = 'Realtek 10/100/1000 PCI-E NIC Family all in one NDIS 
>> Driver v5.728.0604.2009 06/04/2009 (Rtl8023)'
>>     class      = network
>>     subclass   = ethernet
>> 
>> On 9.0 I got it to work once or twice out of a couple of dozen tries.
>> 
>> 9.0 dmesg reports:
>>
>>   re0: RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ...
>> 
>> The release docs imply the card is supported. I did not see a PR. Anyone 
>> else with similiar issues?
> Is the MAC changing?
> Give dmesg some message about it?

Not currently in the same city as my Dell. I installed 8.2 to make sure I did 
not have a hardware issue. I will [re]install 9.0 Sunday and report back.

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