KMAYS,
ABSTRACT: This post is about PCI express RTL8111 issues
I took a lot risk by bying bleading edge hardware for my Solaris box, where the
mobo and the graphic card is one month old. I would love to report my setup
into the HCL, so more can buy bleading edge HW. But first I would like to see
if we can get the Ati 4850 to work and the NIC RTL8111. For the Ati, it seems
that MoinakG is looking into the Xlog file i mailed him right now(?). For the
NIC, I would like to do one last try, otherwise I buy one PCI express Intel
NIC. If we get the RTL8111 to work it is good for the HCL (it is very common).
If someone knows of a working PCI express NIC, please post here. Actually, I
dont expect someone to be able to solve this, but I will post it anyway. One
never knows.
I have two RTL8111 PCI express NIC on this mobo.
WinXP says
active NIC:
00-1F-D0-20-BF-DB
Inactive NIC:
00-1F-D0-20-C0-6A
Whereas in Solaris, ifconfig shows
rge0: flags=....
ether 0:1f:d0:20:c0:6a
The NICs differ. I therefore did this in Solaris:
bash-3.2# cat hostname.rge0
frasse ether 0:1f:d0:20:bf:db
I know 0:1f:d0:20:bf:db works under WinXP.
Further output:
bash-3.2# ifconfig -a
lo0: flags=2001000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,VIRTUAL> mtu 8232
index 1
inet 127.0.0.1 netmask ff000000
rge0: flags=201000843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv4,CoS> mtu 1500 index 2
inet 192.168.0.185 netmask ffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
ether 0:1f:d0:20:bf:db
lo0: flags=2002000849<UP,LOOPBACK,RUNNING,MULTICAST,IPv6,VIRTUAL> mtu 8252
index 1
inet6 ::1/128
bash-3.2# netstat -rn
Routing Table: IPv4
Destination Gateway Flags Ref Use Interface
-------------------- -------------------- ----- ----- ---------- ---------
default 192.168.0.1 UG 1 0
192.168.0.0 192.168.0.185 U 1 48 rge0
127.0.0.1 127.0.0.1 UH 1 574 lo0
Routing Table: IPv6
Destination/Mask Gateway Flags Ref Use If
--------------------------- --------------------------- ----- --- ------- -----
::1 ::1 UH 1 23 lo0
bash-3.2# /usr/X11/bin/scanpci
....
pci bus 0x0003 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8168
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
controller
pci bus 0x0004 cardnum 0x00 function 0x00: vendor 0x10ec device 0x8168
Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet
controller
bash-3.2# prtconf -v
...
pci1458,e000, instance #1
Driver properties:
name='fm-ereport-capable' type=boolean dev=none
Hardware properties:
name='pci-msix-capid-pointer' type=int items=1
value=000000b0
name='pci-msi-capid-pointer' type=int items=1
value=00000050
name='assigned-addresses' type=int items=15
value=81040010.00000000.0000c000.00000000.00000100.c3040018.00000000.ea010000.00000000.00001000.c3040
020.00000000.ea000000.00000000.00010000
name='reg' type=int items=20
value=00040000.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000000.01040010.00000000.00000000.00000000.00000100.43040
018.00000000.00000000.00000000.00001000.43040020.00000000.00000000.00000000.00010000
name='compatible' type=string items=13
value='pciex10ec,8168.1458.e000.2' +
'pciex10ec,8168.1458.e000' + 'pciex10ec,8168.2' + 'pciex10ec,8168' +
'pciexclass,020000' + 'pciexclass,0200' + 'pci10ec,8168.1458.e000.2' +
'pci10ec,8168.1458.e000' + 'pci1458,e000' + 'pci10ec,8168.2' + 'pci10ec,8168' +
'pciclass,020000' + 'pciclass,0200'
name='model' type=string items=1
value='Ethernet controller'
name='power-consumption' type=int items=2
value=00000001.00000001
name='devsel-speed' type=int items=1
value=00000000
name='interrupts' type=int items=1
value=00000001
name='subsystem-vendor-id' type=int items=1
value=00001458
name='subsystem-id' type=int items=1
value=0000e000
name='unit-address' type=string items=1
value='0'
name='class-code' type=int items=1
value=00020000
name='revision-id' type=int items=1
value=00000002
name='vendor-id' type=int items=1
value=000010ec
name='device-id' type=int items=1
value=00008168
name='pcie-capid-pointer' type=int items=1
value=00000070
name='pcie-capid-reg' type=int items=1
value=00000201
Device Minor Nodes:
dev=(237,2)
dev_path=/pci at 0,0/pci8086,3a4a at 1c,5/pci1458,e000
at 0:rge1
spectype=chr type=minor
dev_link=/dev/rge1
bash-3.2# dmesg | grep rge
Jul 8 13:28:29 frasse scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd3 at marvell88sx0: target
4 lun 0
Jul 8 13:28:29 frasse scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd4 at marvell88sx0: target
5 lun 0
Jul 8 13:28:45 frasse scsi: [ID 193665 kern.info] sd0 at ata1: target 0 lun 0
Jul 8 13:28:55 frasse mac: [ID 736570 kern.info] NOTICE: rge1 unregistered
Jul 8 13:36:07 frasse pcplusmp: [ID 444295 kern.info] pcplusmp: pci10ec,8168
(rge) instance #1 vector 0x1a ioapic 0xff intin 0xff is bound to cpu 3
Jul 8 13:36:07 frasse rge: [ID 801725 kern.info] NOTICE: rge1: Using MSI
interrupt type
Jul 8 13:36:07 frasse mac: [ID 469746 kern.info] NOTICE: rge1 registered
Question: prtconf shows pciex10ec,8168.1458.e000.2
whereas I seem to have pci10ec in my system. I suspect I have PCI driver
version? And it should be pciex version? What can be the problem? Is the
RTL8111 not working, period?
snoop -d rge0 shows no output. Just sits there waiting. A couple of minutes
ago, I couldnt ping 192.168.0.185. But now I can. I never have succeeded
pinging my D-link 604 router on 192.168.0.1.
(Yesterday I managed to get this output, but when I tried this again an hour
later, it didnt work. Very often, something works one way, and later it works
another way. It feels non-deterministic
bash-3.2# snoop -d rge0
Using device rge0 (promiscuous mode)
frasse -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.1 ?
frasse -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.1 ?
frasse -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.1 ?
frasse -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.1 ?
frasse -> (broadcast) ARP C Who is 192.168.0.1, 192.168.0.1 ?)
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