El Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:35:05 -0000 (UTC) [email protected] (Michael van Elst) escribió: > [email protected] (Luis Falcon) writes: > > >Reading the re man page, "The 8169S and 8110S are single-chip devices > >containing both a 10/100/1000 MAC and 10/100/1000 copper PHY, which > >is supported by rgephy(4)". > > >Could it be that the kernel is assigning the "re" driver to the > >device instead of "rgephy"? dmesg shows "RTL8169SBL". > > > re(4) is the driver for the MAC engine, rgephy(4) is the driver for > the PHY (tranceiver). > > Some chips combine both functions into a single package. > > Here I get: > > [ 1.016855] re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8168/8111 PCIe > Gigabit Eth ernet (rev. 0x15) > [ 1.016855] rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8251 1000BASE-T media > interface, rev. 0 >
I never get to see the PHY driver that both you and Greg get :/ > > Your RTL8169SBL should be supported, but apparently it's not > responding. You also see that the driver reads ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as > ethernet address which is another sign that the chip doesn't respond > or isn't accessed correctly. > Thank you! I just replied Greg message to the list with a more detailed log on PCI info specific to the interface and some boot time errors. I don't know whether is the chipset that is not supported or that is faulty, but we'll get to that point :) Best, Luis
