RTL8168/8111 Not Being Assigned to Interface

[hamtilla]

I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-i386 on Jetway's NC92-N230 mainboard. The board has
one integrated RTL8168/8111 gigabit NIC as well as an expansion board with
three RTL8168/8111 NICs.

none2@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec
rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
re0@pci0:2:4:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
re1@pci0:2:6:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
re2@pci0:2:7:0: class=0x020000 card=0x10ec16f3 chip=0x816710ec rev=0x10
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
device = 'RTL8169/8110 Family Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
class = network
subclass = ethernet

Why would the three NICs work while the onboard NIC does not? I would
imagine the same driver services both controllers. Do I need to assign an
interface to the device somehow?

Thank you!
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[Al Plant]

Aloha,

I use the same PCI cards in a number of servers. All work fine. But on
board ones are only 100 so I dont use them.

However I notice that the on board nic in your case uses a different
chipset:

chip=0x816810ec is onboard.
chip=0x816710ec is slot pci's.

I dont know what this means in respect to operation problems though.

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[Pieter de Goeje]

On Friday 21 November 2008, hamtilla wrote:
> I'm running 7.0-RELEASE-i386 on Jetway's NC92-N230 mainboard. The board has
> one integrated RTL8168/8111 gigabit NIC as well as an expansion board with
> three RTL8168/8111 NICs.
>
> none2@pci0:1:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x816810ec chip=0x816810ec
> rev=0x02 hdr=0x00
> vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor'
> device = 'RTL8168/8111 PCI-E Gigabit Ethernet NIC'
> class = network
> subclass = ethernet

This NIC requires FreeBSD 7-STABLE or -CURRENT.

You can probably copy the if_re driver from -STABLE to your source tree and
recompile the kernel, or simply update to 7-STABLE.

Hope this helps,

Pieter de Goeje

[hamtilla]

I upgraded to 7.1-PRERELEASE and now it works.

Thank you!

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