Realtek 8168/8111 + Socket 1150 board support?

[Jay]

Greetings -

Does anyone know the status of this? I realize this could have been posted in the LAN forum, but SIFTU (in IRC) says he's able to get it to work with his AMD boards, so I figure it must be a motherboard incompatibility. I've tried at least three socket 1150 boards with the 8168/8111 chipset and N4F has failed to initialize all of them. I've tested the NICs and they all work fine off a Ubuntu live disc and from within Windows.

Thoughts?

Thanks in advance,
Jay

[raulfg3]

please post more info about your mainboard and the NIC that mount, I have a ASUS Board with realtek 8111C for years that works fine ( yes do not have socket 1150 is a AM3 socket), but this must do not be significant to work or not the embeded NIC.

[Jay]

Current board is an ECS H87H3-M(1.0)

dmesg output:

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re1: <RealTek 8168/8111 B/C/CP/D/DP/E/F PCIe Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xd000-0xd0ff mem 0xf7c00000-0xf7c00fff,0xf0000000-0xf0003fff irq 18 at device 0.0 on pci5
re1: Using 1 MSI-X message
re1: Chip rev. 0x4c000000
re1: MAC rev. 0x00000000
re1: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000
device_attach: re1 attach returned 6

ifconfig output:

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nas4free: ~ # ifconfig
re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
        ether 00:0a:cd:1f:62:18
        inet 10.0.100.12 netmask 0xff000000 broadcast 10.255.255.255
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
        media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
        status: active
plip0: flags=8810<POINTOPOINT,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
ipfw0: flags=8801<UP,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 65536
        nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
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 0x7 
        inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 
        nd6 options=21<PERFORMNUD,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>

re0 is a pcie card I temporarily added to get access to the system.

Prior to adding the 2nd nic, I tried the instructions here and got stuck on step 8 as I got the error that the module was already loaded.

If you need anything else, please let me know. I would really like to get this working.

Thanks!

[raulfg3]

Your NIC is re1: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000 that is widely know as Realtek® 8111G : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 53795.html

and YES , is not supported by BSD 9.2 but can be supported by BSD 10: https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41366

[Jay]

Your NIC is re1: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000 that is widely know as Realtek® 8111G : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 53795.html

and YES , is not supported by BSD 9.2 but can be supported by BSD 10: https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41366

Hi raulfg3, thanks for the update. Is there a way to make this work with 9.2, since that's what Nas4Free is based on? Recompiling the kernel, special drivers, etc... ?

[b0ssman]

it would be way easier to just buy a cheap (and good) intel nic.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6833106033

[raulfg3]

Your NIC is re1: Unknown H/W revision: 0x4c000000 that is widely know as Realtek® 8111G : http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/free ... 53795.html

and YES , is not supported by BSD 9.2 but can be supported by BSD 10: https://forums.freebsd.org/viewtopic.php?t=41366

Hi raulfg3, thanks for the update. Is there a way to make this work with 9.2, since that's what Nas4Free is based on? Recompiling the kernel, special drivers, etc... ?

not enought knowledge to do, by I point to a post that perhaps can help you: viewtopic.php?f=58&t=5916#p32362

as you can see in this post, compile and configure to use in other version is not easy.

[MikeMac]

SOLVED - Realtek 8111G on nas4free
How to (English) http://blog.hani-ibrahim.de/en/nic-on-e ... eenas.html
How to (Russian) http://2gusia.livejournal.com/179747.html
Driver, compiled from sources on Realtek site by ab5031
https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B9onsE ... sp=sharing
copy
https://yadi.sk/d/K9DGK-XQWWERB

[raulfg3]

thanks a lot to share it.

[HAZArD01]

following the above tutorial I've screwed up... my question is: how do I make the sign "|" on an Italian keyboard? I mean which is the keys combination I should press when I'am in the console shift + back slash doesn't works, alt + 124 neither! This damn thing driving me crazy...

[alex87alex]

following the above tutorial I've screwed up... my question is: how do I make the sign "|" on an Italian keyboard? I mean which is the keys combination I should press when I'am in the console shift + back slash doesn't works, alt + 124 neither! This damn thing driving me crazy...

shift+\ (near number 1 and up to tab). That sign is "pipe", it puts standard output of the first command to the standard input of the second

[HAZArD01]

following the above tutorial I've screwed up... my question is: how do I make the sign "|" on an Italian keyboard? I mean which is the keys combination I should press when I'am in the console shift + back slash doesn't works, alt + 124 neither! This damn thing driving me crazy...

shift+\ (near number 1 and up to tab). That sign is "pipe", it puts standard output of the first command to the standard input of the second

First of all I'd to thank U for your answer. Well as U can read the combination "shift+\" (back slash) or "alt+124" (ascII typing) doesn't work!!! Any help will be appreciated...

[alex87alex]

oooops sorry, i answered too fast Stupid question: backslash works? How do you connect keyboard? PS2 or usb? This is the only shortcut you can't do? For example altgr+shift+è? ( { ) What kind of keyboard do you have? Have you ever tried to use "loadkeys" command in bash?