if_re for 4.11?

[Barry Bouwsma]

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Moin,

Are there any plans to add the if_re Realtek gigabit ethernet
driver, present in 5.x, -current, NetBSD, DragonFly, and OpenBSD,
to FreeBSD 4.11?

I have a driver based on -current that compiles and seems to mostly
work, over which I'm sending this, and if nobody else has this up
their sleeve, I can clean up my source, do more testing, and make
it available for download and testing.  (Unless such support is
already present, like in if_rl or something)

I suspect cards with these chipsets are getting fairly common...


My driver seems to work fine connected at 10Mbit/sec; it will
connect at 100Mbit/sec when set to `autoselect', but when forced
to 100Mbit media, regardless of mediaopt, I can't detect a carrier;
and I don't have a second gigabit card/hardware to test that speed,
although with such a card costing as much as the deposit from two
empty cases of beer, I'd better start drinking to properly test it.
I haven't verified that NetBSD operates better.


Also, I've got a driver for the USB(2) fast ethernet adapter in
if_axe, that should probably suffer some more testing, mentioned
in the freebsd-usb@ mailing list, for 4.x, if anyone has that
hardware and would like to test it out for inclusion into 4.11 .
The issues I know about are mentioned on that list, and such an
adapter should set one back three empty cases of beer these days
(and in my location; more drinking may be needed elsewhere)


thanks,
barry bouwsma