Re: RTL8111/8168B not negotiating 1GB

From: Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman_at_gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 2 Jan 2014 21:18:37 -0600
On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 9:06 PM, Adam Vande More <amvandemore_at_gmail.com>wrote:

> On Thu, Jan 2, 2014 at 7:39 PM, Sam Fourman Jr. <sfourman_at_gmail.com>wrote:
>
>> Hello list,
>>
>> I have a Asus Sabertooth 990FXv2 motherboard,  and a run of the mill
>> NetGear DGS2205 desktop gig switch
>>
>> with linux my Ethernet can negotiate at 1GB but with FreeBSD it can not
>> if I force the device to 1000baseT  with ifconfig it does not work.
>>
>>
>> uname -a
>> FreeBSD NewBSD 11.0-CURRENT FreeBSD 11.0-CURRENT #1 r260188M: Thu Jan  2
>> 04:27:49 CST 2014     sfourman_at_NewBSD:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/GENERIC  amd64
>>
>>
>>
>> re0_at_pci0:10:0:0: class=0x020000 card=0x85051043 chip=0x816810ec rev=0x09
>> hdr=0x00
>>     vendor     = 'Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd.'
>>     device     = 'RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller'
>>     class      = network
>>     subclass   = ethernet
>>
>>
>>
>> root_at_NewBSD:/usr/home/sfourman/Desktop # 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 60:a4:4c:60:d5:a7
>> inet 192.168.1.31 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
>> inet6 fe80::62a4:4cff:fe60:d5a7%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
>> nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>> status: active
>
>
> /etc/rc.conf is important here as well as the complete steps and output
> which provoked this response:
>
> "but with FreeBSD it can not
> if I force the device to 1000baseT  with ifconfig it does not work."
>
> In the given output, autoselect clearly selects 100Mb connection, the
> question is why.
>
>
> rc.conf is this:

defaultrouter="192.168.1.1"
ifconfig_re0="inet 192.168.1.31 netmask 0xffffff00"


but the problem is we need to patch the re driver somehow because
I have many motherboards where this exact nic does not work correctly.

>
> --
> Adam
>



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Sam Fourman Jr.
Received on Fri Jan 03 2014 - 02:18:38 UTC

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