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Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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Purchased Asus's B85M-G mother board with onboard 8111G Lan & 16G ram for new Nas. But find 8111G is not supported by Nas4Free 847 :cry: . In addition to buy another NIC, any solution for using the onboard 8111G NIC?
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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Solution: wait to be supported or compile driver for it.

http://forums.freenas.org/threads/realtek-8111g.14479/
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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raulg3

Just for your update. I wait to be supported but try to use the ko from the link. However it is not workable in my case :| .
Production1: 11.2.0.4 (R6154) x64-embedded on AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor 8G Non-ECC Ram ASUS M4A88T-M 2x2T + 1x4T
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you need to load module using new rc.conf webEdit in recet new version.
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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Do you mean use Advance-->loader.conf and add "if_re_load", "YES", description. I did. I run kldstat and console show if_re.ko is running but 8111G is still not workable.
Production1: 11.2.0.4 (R6154) x64-embedded on AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor 8G Non-ECC Ram ASUS M4A88T-M 2x2T + 1x4T
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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vkyk wrote:raulg3

Do you mean use Advance-->loader.conf and add "if_re_load", "YES", description. I did. I run kldstat and console show if_re.ko is running but 8111G is still not workable.
yes that is right.

do you previosly copied new if_re.ko to /boot/kernel ??

and revise that is not deleted on reboot?

If you use full N4F copy to /boot/kernel is not deleted on reboot, if use embeded , you need to copy to your data disk and copy using preinit command webgui.

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cp /mnt/mypool/temp/if_re.kp /boot/kernel
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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I wonder if a similar solution would work for the new Intel Nics installed on Z87 mobos...
Watercooling is just the beginning ;)
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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raulg3

Late reply as I cannot reach nas4free webpage or to forum at my office which find such problem.

I use full version and check that a new if_re has been installed in /boot/kernel. And it is still NOT workable.
Production1: 11.2.0.4 (R6154) x64-embedded on AMD Athlon(tm) II X4 640 Processor 8G Non-ECC Ram ASUS M4A88T-M 2x2T + 1x4T
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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vkyk wrote:raulg3

Late reply as I cannot reach nas4free webpage or to forum at my office which find such problem.

I use full version and check that a new if_re has been installed in /boot/kernel. And it is still NOT workable.
bad news, do not lose more time trying not working NIC, buy an Intel NIC, and forget.
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Re: Realtek 8111G Lan Controller

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Currently 28.5$ http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B001CY0P7G quite cheap and works great. I have been using two of them for close to a year now without issues and get over 105MB/s sustained speeds. Not worth it to me to spend so much time trying to get buggy NIC to work.
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Or go dual port. I have used a bunch of these...

http://www.amazon.com/HP-NC360T-Express ... l+port+nic
http://www.amazon.com/Intel-1000-Dual-S ... l+port+nic
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Darn wish the Intel duel port was that cheap when I bought mine. Got mine last year and all duel port NICs were over $100 so it wasn't worth it.
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