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 _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
