Realtek RTL8152 driver attempt

[Rick van der Zwet]

On 05/02/15 16:33, Kevin Lo wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 05, 2015 at 09:17:40AM +0100, Rick van der Zwet wrote:
>>
>> Hi Folks,
>
> Hi Rick,
>
>> I have been trying to write a FreeBSD driver (if_rtl) for the Realtek
>> RTL8152 chipset, which is a USB to Ethernet dongle (using the Sitecom
>> LN-030 v3).
>
> What a coincidence.  I've been slowly working on porting r8152 driver from
> Linux to FreeBSD since last month.

Nice!

>> Looking at the if_rue(4) and the linux r8152.c code, basically I got
>> this far in porting but yet no working code:
>>       https://rickvanderzwet.nl/svn/personal/freebsd-rtl-driver/
>>
>> There are no bulk out and in packets passing trough, so I am basically
>> stuck now, not knowing how-to continue this journey. Could anybody give
>> me an hint on how-to get this train going again?
>
> Mine basically is working but needs serious cleanup and bug fixes.
> http://people.freebsd.org/~kevlo/ure.diff
>
> Please let me know if it works for you, thanks.

I have been trying it in VirtualBox and basic I/O works. It really does 
not like to be stressed. Running an `ping -f` or iperf kills the driver 
saying 'ure0: PHY read failed'.

Will try to get some real hardware setup to see if it makes any difference.

Best regards,
/Rick