Unknown Re0 Hardware version

[Willem Jan Withagen]

On 22-8-2011 1:15, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
> On 2011-08-22 1:01, YongHyeon PYUN wrote:
>> On Sun, Aug 21, 2011 at 04:01:10PM +0200, Willem Jan Withagen wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> I'm assembling a few system with a ASUS P8 H161-MLE motherboard
>>> which was supposed to have a 'Realtek® 8112L, 1 x Gigabit LAN
>>> Controller(s)' onboard.
>>>
>>> And to be honestly I never expected that version not to be supported.
>>> Just booted 8.2-RELEASE on it, and the Installer crashed when I wanted
>>> it to config the ehternet.
>>>
>>> Rebooted, and re0 kicks in. But gives a HW revision not supported.
>>> It claims HW revision 0x2c800000.
>>>
>>> Is this supported in later 8.2-Stable??? Or in 9.x??
>>>
>>> I'm willing to tinker with the code to recompile the re0 driver.
>>>
>>
>> Your controller looks like RTL8168E VL and support for the
>> controller was added after 8.2-RELEASE.
>> Either update your source to stable/8 or patch your source tree
>> with back-ported re(4) driver for 8.2-RELEASE like the following.
>>
>> 1. Fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/8.2R/if_re.c and
>>     copy it to /usr/src/sys/dev/re directory.
>> 2. Fetch http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/re/8.2R/if_rlreg.h and
>>     copy it /usr/src/sys/pci directory.
>> And rebuild your kernel and your controller should be recognized in
>> next boot.
> 
> Hi YongHyeon PYUN,
> 
> Oke, that would mean I temporarily have to insert another ether card
> to get things onboard. Or use the sneaker network. :)
> 
> I did check the 9.x stuff, but there the revision number was not in
> /usr/src/sys/pci/if_rlreg.h ....
> And you are right, they are in 8.2-STABLE.

I booted 9.x-BETA2 and there it is available.
So that's another reason for running 9.x on this board.

--WjW