[if_re.c] INTEL mini/itx DE945GSEJT

[Frank Reppin-3]

Hi all,

just purchased the above mentioned board:

http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm

and this board claims to come with a so called:

   Realtek 8111D

network (10/100/1000m) chipset onboard.

Digging in -current and google.com/ncr revealed that this certain
board/nic seems to be not supported by the -CURRENT- if_re.c provided
by FreeBSD. Some further investigations reveals that OpenBSD claims to
support this (most prolly) precious chipset (8111D) within their 4.5
release:

   http://www.openbsd.org/45.html
   (searching for 8111D will point you to re(4))

My question(s) is(are):

   a) does anyone run this board without flaws on fbsd-current
      with its intergrated 8111D NIC
      ( my 'failover' option is to run this board using xl thanks to
        it's pci slot)

   b) if a) doesn't apply - how did you get it working on current/stable
      without another driver

   c) OpenBSD mentions this one ( 8111D support ) in their release notes
      for a _stable_ version ( 4.5 )- but I cannot even see support for
      this specific device in FreeBSD trunk/head

   d) realtek itself does provide drivers for even FreeBSD (sources)...
      ... are there any experiences using those drivers

To make a long story short/and to be honest...

... I'd like to see native support in at least -current.

TIA,

frank reppin

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[Jonas Lund]

If you've just purchased a new board i think you could try it out as
you install it. Apart from the mentioned things boards usually
contains the same chipsets as other boards so chances are it'll work.
And if not directly then under some compat mode (Altho could be with
reduced speed)

And if realtek does provide source for their drivers i'd prolly not be
too worried. The shitties drivers i've used was some crap produced by
some random chineese chip-shop that had delay(10000) or something
alike it inside kernel-code (That's right.. it waited 10 seconds in
kernel for no apperant reason!) but the code was functional with this
removed.

2009/8/5 Frank Reppin <frank@...>:

> Hi all,
>
> just purchased the above mentioned board:
>
> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm
>
> and this board claims to come with a so called:
>
>  Realtek 8111D
>
> network (10/100/1000m) chipset onboard.
>
> Digging in -current and google.com/ncr revealed that this certain board/nic
> seems to be not supported by the -CURRENT- if_re.c provided
> by FreeBSD. Some further investigations reveals that OpenBSD claims to
> support this (most prolly) precious chipset (8111D) within their 4.5
> release:
>
>  http://www.openbsd.org/45.html
>  (searching for 8111D will point you to re(4))
>
> My question(s) is(are):
>
>  a) does anyone run this board without flaws on fbsd-current
>     with its intergrated 8111D NIC
>     ( my 'failover' option is to run this board using xl thanks to
>       it's pci slot)
>
>  b) if a) doesn't apply - how did you get it working on current/stable
>     without another driver
>
>  c) OpenBSD mentions this one ( 8111D support ) in their release notes
>     for a _stable_ version ( 4.5 )- but I cannot even see support for
>     this specific device in FreeBSD trunk/head
>
>  d) realtek itself does provide drivers for even FreeBSD (sources)...
>     ... are there any experiences using those drivers
>
> To make a long story short/and to be honest...
>
> ... I'd like to see native support in at least -current.
>
> TIA,
>
> frank reppin
>
> --
>
> http://www.undermydesk.org
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[Frank Reppin-3]

Hi all and
hi Jonas!

Jonas Lund wrote:

> If you've just purchased a new board i think you could try it out as
> you install it. Apart from the mentioned things boards usually
> contains the same chipsets as other boards so chances are it'll work.
> And if not directly then under some compat mode (Altho could be with
> reduced speed)
>
> And if realtek does provide source for their drivers i'd prolly not be
> too worried. The shitties drivers i've used was some crap produced by
> some random chineese chip-shop that had delay(10000) or something
> alike it inside kernel-code (That's right.. it waited 10 seconds in
> kernel for no apperant reason!) but the code was functional with this
> removed.
>
> 2009/8/5 Frank Reppin <frank@...>:
>> Hi all,
>>
>> just purchased the above mentioned board:
>>
>> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm

Thankyou so far... and thankyou to if_re.c maintainer(s)... the
mainboard in question is indeed supported by FreeBSD' if_re.c in
at least -CURRENT (I've performed an initial install using the latest
[2009-06] current snapshot ISO and I've later [2009-08-10... late
evening] upgraded to 8.2 beta.

coretemp (4) seems to also work as intended as well as powerd without
any flaws... at a first glance.

Cheers,

frank

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[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Wed, Aug 05, 2009 at 01:13:57AM +0200, Frank Reppin wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> just purchased the above mentioned board:
>
> http://www.intel.com/products/desktop/motherboards/D945GSEJT/D945GSEJT-overview.htm
>
> and this board claims to come with a so called:
>
>   Realtek 8111D
>
> network (10/100/1000m) chipset onboard.
>
> Digging in -current and google.com/ncr revealed that this certain
> board/nic seems to be not supported by the -CURRENT- if_re.c provided
> by FreeBSD. Some further investigations reveals that OpenBSD claims to
> support this (most prolly) precious chipset (8111D) within their 4.5
> release:
>
>   http://www.openbsd.org/45.html
>   (searching for 8111D will point you to re(4))
>
> My question(s) is(are):
>
>   a) does anyone run this board without flaws on fbsd-current
>      with its intergrated 8111D NIC

re(4) man page requires major update for its supported chipsets
and features. All known RealTek PCIe wired controllers(up to 8168D)
should be supported.

>      ( my 'failover' option is to run this board using xl thanks to
>        it's pci slot)
>
>   b) if a) doesn't apply - how did you get it working on current/stable
>      without another driver
>
>   c) OpenBSD mentions this one ( 8111D support ) in their release notes
>      for a _stable_ version ( 4.5 )- but I cannot even see support for
>      this specific device in FreeBSD trunk/head
>
>   d) realtek itself does provide drivers for even FreeBSD (sources)...
>      ... are there any experiences using those drivers
>

Vendor's FreeBSD driver lacks a lot of nice hardware features and
its performance is suboptimal. Use it only when you have no choice
for your controller.

> To make a long story short/and to be honest...
>
> ... I'd like to see native support in at least -current.
>
> TIA,
>
> frank reppin
>
> --
>
> http://www.undermydesk.org

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[Frank Reppin-3]

Hi list!
Hi Pyun,

Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
[...]
> re(4) man page requires major update for its supported chipsets
> and features. All known RealTek PCIe wired controllers(up to 8168D)
> should be supported.
aye - with regards to my question I'd second this.
I've already figured out that this NIC is support by the (at least)
current i386 snapshot ISO and our 8.0-beta2 (current) - but thankyou
for coming back to me on this issue!

Thankyou!

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