[SOLVED] New driver for Realtek 8111F

[sjordan]

I booted up and show no network card. I have a realtek 8111F which is suppose to be supported in Freebsd 9. Is there anyway I can get it working in nas4free?

[raulfg3]

Sorry but 8111F is NOT supported. (support was added after releasing 9.0-RELEASE)
ONLY 8111C/D and some revision of E is supported.

http://freebsd.1045724.n5.nabble.com/Re ... 61828.html

[foxhd]

Hi
i compiled a driver for 8111F.
Follow the tutorial:
http://blog.hani-ibrahim.de/en/netzwerk ... ieren.html

[sjordan]

foxhd thanks! I will try it first chance i get

[sjordan]

downloaded and got it working. Thanks. My new build is now online and running!

[Babovand]

How to compile this into the kernel?

[cchayre]

does anyone have a copy of the FreeBSD 9/NAS4Free driver? It appears that it's now unavailable via the d/l site.

[raulfg3]

Try to download a CD of BSD 9 current or Stable ( NOT release) and find the driver on it. Download apropiate CD for your arquitecture ( X64 or X86).

[cchayre]

I was able to get a copy of the driver. However, when I attempt to load it via kldload or by adding it to /cf/boot/loader.conf, I receive an error along the lines of the following:

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module_register: module rl/miibus already exists!
Module rl/miibus failed to register: 17
module_register: module cardbus/rl already exists!
Module cardbus/rl failed to register: 17
module_register: module pci/rl already exists!
Module pci/rl failed to register: 17

I've tried the if_re.ko driver as well, but it fails with the same result. Any suggestions? I am somewhat fresh to FreeBSD, so I will not be surprised if I am missing the obvious. (I assume it has something to do with an existing driver being built into the kernel??)

Thanks!

[Babovand]

Try to download a CD of BSD 9 current or Stable ( NOT release) and find the driver on it. Download apropiate CD for your arquitecture ( X64 or X86).

The support for the 8111f driver was added after the Stable release of freebased 9.0, so there is no support for this particular NIC in the stable release.

I was able to get a copy of the driver. However, when I attempt to load it via kldload or by adding it to /cf/boot/loader.conf, I receive an error along the lines of the following:

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module_register: module rl/miibus already exists!
Module rl/miibus failed to register: 17
module_register: module cardbus/rl already exists!
Module cardbus/rl failed to register: 17
module_register: module pci/rl already exists!
Module pci/rl failed to register: 17

I've tried the if_re.ko driver as well, but it fails with the same result. Any suggestions? I am somewhat fresh to FreeBSD, so I will not be surprised if I am missing the obvious. (I assume it has something to do with an existing driver being built into the kernel??)

Thanks!

Yeah, Maybe, But if it is compiled into the kernel, why wont it auto initiate ("work out of the box")? Like all other NICs?, thats why I suspect that it is actually not compiled into the kernel, would be awesome if N4F team could compile it into the kernel for us.

[sjordan]

I was using the driver for my motherboard and found it to be somewhat unstable. There were many times during large transfers that I would see log messages say the link we down (which resulted in transfers not finishing). I ended up buying a intel nic and disabled the onboard 8111F. Maybe you will have better luck

[Babovand]

That has also happens to me when i stream BDMV (bluray rips 40+GB) sometimes i even need to restart the server, why oh why is such a good filesystem based upon such a crap OS (no offence)

[fgrayson]

I wouldn't blame the OS so fast. Historically, Realtek NICs have not enjoyed the best reputation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtek#Cr ... of_quality

Theo seems to think the newer ones are better, for whatever that's worth.

[Babovand]

I wouldn't blame the OS so fast. Historically, Realtek NICs have not enjoyed the best reputation.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Realtek#Cr ... of_quality

Theo seems to think the newer ones are better, for whatever that's worth.

You kinda made my point, as i read in the wiki link you linked, ONLY FreeBSD is complaining, why only FreeBSD and not any other OSes?, I tested openmediavault , which is based upon debian linux, network card worked great, great speeds and and overall system performance, but lacked support for "zfs-like" filesystem.

FreeBSD just feels out-dated, even the install of any *BSD like system takes ju back to the 80s, the whole ports thing is just a big mess, and it is very very hardware sensitive, either it works or it dont, if it works 0-40% ledd performance and more buggs.

Never been a *BSD prior to testing Freenas, openmediavault then finally N4F, but have been a linux user for a long time.

[cchayre]

I was using the driver for my motherboard and found it to be somewhat unstable. There were many times during large transfers that I would see log messages say the link we down (which resulted in transfers not finishing). I ended up buying a intel nic and disabled the onboard 8111F. Maybe you will have better luck

I am going to go this route---have an order in for an Intel-based NIC. Long-term I'd like for this to not be the case, as I purposely went with a lightweight mini-ITX board and only have one slot. I very much want to save the sole PCI-express slot for an extra controller card for if/when I want to add more storage.

To some of the other points, if it wasn't for ZFS and my paranoia of data loss, I would just go with a custom, lightweight linux build.

[raulfg3]

You are still in time to test OMV http://www.openmediavault.org/

There are still no good/better replace for ZFs, but in the near middle future perhaps BTRFS has the oportunity.

In the middle there are one post of HOWTO instal ZFS On OMV ( You must know that is not as fast as ZFS implementation of Nas4Free, but work).

[Babovand]

You are still in time to test OMV http://www.openmediavault.org/

There are still no good/better replace for ZFs, but in the near middle future perhaps BTRFS has the oportunity.

In the middle there are one post of HOWTO instal ZFS On OMV ( You must know that is not as fast as ZFS implementation of Nas4Free, but work).

Thats why im kinda "forced" to use N4F, since ZFS is more "native" to the *bsd system then the linux systems, and im also very paranoid about my data

[raulfg3]

today a new version of Nas4Free is posted, is based on BSD 9.1 so it must work with Realtek 8111F whitout problem:
viewtopic.php?f=78&t=1011&p=3421#p3421

http://sourceforge.net/projects/nas4fre ... e-9.1.0.1/

[Babovand]

It works now with BSD 9.1 out of the box without any problems, and fast too!

[dilbert]

I built the NAS (currently NAS4Free 9.1.0.1 build 531) on ASUS C60M1-I motherboard with Realtek 8111F onboard lan and I had lot of troubles, lost connections etc. As soon as I inserted Intel network card, all problems disappeared right away.

I found that Realtek has released a new version of FreeBSD driver for RTL8111F a couple weeks ago and here is the link to the source code: http://152.104.125.41/downloads/downloa ... E/RTL8111F

Is there a chance to have an updated build with this new driver?

[raulfg3]

only if is included in latest BSD 9.1 that is now comming

[dilbert]

I see. Thanks.