On Wed, Jan 19, 2011 at 11:54:54PM +0000, b. f. wrote: > Mike Clarke wrote: > > I need to replace a failing motherboard. I'm aiming to keep the existing > > Athlon CPU so I'm tied down to to a socket AM2(+) board and the > > majority of those available seem to have nForce 630a chipsets and > > RTL8211CL or 8201EL NIC's which aren't explicitly mentioned in the > > release notes > > <http://www.freebsd.org/releases/8.1R/hardware.html#ETHERNET>. I see > > that the strings RTL8211C(L) and RTL8201L (but not EL) appear > > in /usr/src/sys/dev/rgephy.c and rlphy.c but the man page for the rl > > driver only mentions RealTek 8129/8139 and I'm not sure which driver is > > built from rgephy.c. > > > > Am I going to have problems if I get a motherboard with one of these > > NIC's? > > It's a bit confusing, because there are product numbers associated > with NICs, and with different individual component chipsets, and some
Correct. Identifying exact model number is the one of hardest thing in Realtek controllers. I think RTL8211CL or 8201EL are not MAC controller but the PHY model name. These PHY are supported by rlphy(4) since they are not gigabit PHY(e.g. Fast Ethernet). > code is shared. Pyun YongHyeon, who has been working on the re(4) and > rl(4) drivers in -CURRENT and -STABLE recently, could probably tell > you more (I've cc'ed him). > All Realtek controllers are supported so I think you don't have to worry about that. Very recent controller like RTL8105 is not supported yet but it would be done in near future. > b. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"
