>Number: 183620
>Category: amd64
>Synopsis: RTL8111/8168B PCIE NIC not detected on any FreeBSD Version
>Confidential: no
>Severity: non-critical
>Priority: low
>Responsible: freebsd-amd64
>State: open
>Quarter:
>Keywords:
>Date-Required:
>Class: sw-bug
>Submitter-Id: current-users
>Arrival-Date: Sun Nov 03 14:50:00 UTC 2013
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator: Danny Winn
>Release: 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0-BETA2 (same bug in all releases)
>Organization:
>Environment:
Every version/kernel/environment mentioned above
>Description:
Hello,
we are trying to install FreeBSD on a computer that uses the NIC mentioned
above. The NIC is running under linux without problems, which we've tested for
several days transferring several GB of data.
The NIC is neither detected by the FreeBSD installer when attempting to setup
the network, nor after the system installation when booting from HD. We've
tested FreeBSD 8.x, 9.x and 10.x; same issues with this NIC.
We cannot use a different NIC (this one is onboard. The micro ATX mainboard has
no room left for any other device)
pciconf -l -v:
none2@pci0:3:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x81681849 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x0c
hdr=0x00
vendor = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
device = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
dmesg:
re0: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port
0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf3204000-0xf3204fff,0xf3200000-0xf3203fff irq 19 at device
0.0 on pci3
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: Chip rev. 0x4c000000
re0: MAC rev. 0x00000000
re0: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000
device_attach: re0 attach returned 6
ifconfig -a:
lo0: flags=8049<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 16384
options=600003<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,RXCSUM_IPV6,TXCSUM_IPV6>
inet6 ::1 prefixlen 128
inet6 fe80::1%lo0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000
nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
Even though "dmesg" shows the device "re0", it remains unknown to "ifconfig".
"if_re" is already in the generic kernel, so it can't be loaded via "kldload"
as a module, right?
>How-To-Repeat:
1.) Install any FreeBSD Version: 8.4, 9.1, 9.2, 10.0-BETA2 with this NIC
2.) "ifconfig -a" shows only the loopback device.
>Fix:
>Release-Note:
>Audit-Trail:
>Unformatted:
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