Re: Issues with Realtek ethernet card - NetBSD 11

[Luis Falcon <falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost>]

Good morning, everyone!

A quick update on the Realtek card.

Reading the re man page, "The 8169S and 8110S are single-chip devices
containing both a 10/100/1000 MAC and 10/100/1000 copper PHY, which is
supported by rgephy(4)".

Could it be that the kernel is assigning the "re" driver to the
device instead of "rgephy"? dmesg shows "RTL8169SBL".

PS: The error "reset never completed!" is immediately triggered whenever
I do ifconfig re0 up. 

Thanks!
Luis


El Sun, 30 Aug 2026 12:44:34 +0100
Luis Falcon <falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost> escribió:
> Dear all
> 
> I'm installing NetBSD 11 in a Toshiba Satellite NB10.
> 
> At this point, I've been able to startup X11 and everything is running
> smoothly, except for the networking stack. The wireless card seems not
> supported, and the Realtek re0 interface has issues. 
> 
> I'm attaching some logs including dmesg, pcictl and ifconfig. Hope
> they help.
> 
> Thank you and have a great Sunday!
> Luis
> 
> *****************
> dmesg
> *****************
> [     1.019032] re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek
> 8100E/8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x07) [
> 1.019032] re0: interrupting at msix3 vec 0 [     1.019032] re0:
> RTL8169SBL (0x7cc0) [     1.019032] re0: reset never completed!
> [     1.019032] re0: Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> [     1.019032] re0: using 256 tx descriptors
> ..
> [     1.018030] re0: RTL8169SBL (0x7cc0)
> [     1.018030] re0: reset never completed!
> [     1.018030] re0: Ethernet address ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> [     1.018030] re0: using 256 tx descriptors
> [   655.252372] re0: reset never completed!
> [   673.752440] re0: watchdog timeout
> [   673.762440] re0: reset never completed!
> [   690.772504] re0: watchdog timeout
> [  1299.984788] re0: reset nevVZL^A^B^KÀ^A¸^B ^B
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> 
> *****************
> /var/log/messages
> *****************
> 
> Aug 29 13:28:00 tolstoy /netbsd: [ 74660.8176120] ugen0: Realtek
> (0x2357) 802.11ac WLAN Adapter (0x011e), rev 2.10/2.00, addr 7 Aug 29
> 13:29:36 tolstoy /netbsd: [ 74757.0773413] ugen0: Realtek (0x2357)
> 802.11ac WLAN Adapter (0x011e), rev 2.10/2.00, addr 8 Aug 29 18:26:44
> tolstoy /netbsd: [   1.0173727] hdafg0 at hdaudio0: Realtek ALC269
> Aug 29 18:26:44 tolstoy /netbsd: [   1.0173727] re0 at pci3 dev 0
> function 0: RealTek 8100E/8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100BaseTX (rev.
> 0x07) Aug 29 19:06:15 tolstoy /netbsd: [   1.0173598] hdafg0 at
> hdaudio0: Realtek ALC269 Aug 29 19:06:15 tolstoy /netbsd: [
> 1.0173598] re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek
> 8100E/8101E/8102E/8102EL PCIe 10/100BaseTX (rev. 0x07)
> 
> 
> *****************
> pcictl
> *****************
> 
> 000:00:0: Intel Bay Trail Processor Transaction Router (host bridge,
> revision 0x0c) [pchb0] 000:02:0: Intel Bay Trail Integrated Graphics
> Device (VGA display, revision 0x0c) [i915drmkms0] 000:19:0: Intel Bay
> Trail SATA (AHCI) (SATA mass storage, AHCI 1.0, revision 0x0c)
> [ahcisata0] 000:20:0: Intel Bay Trail USB xHCI (USB serial bus, xHCI,
> revision 0x0c) [xhci0] 000:26:0: Intel Bay Trail Trusted Execution
> Engine (miscellaneous crypto, revision 0x0c) 000:27:0: Intel Bay
> Trail HD Audio (mixed mode multimedia, HD Audio 1.0, revision 0x0c)
> [hdaudio0] 000:28:0: Intel Bay Trail PCIe Root Port (PCI bridge,
> revision 0x0c) [ppb0] 000:28:1: Intel Bay Trail PCIe Root Port (PCI
> bridge, revision 0x0c) [ppb1] 000:28:2: Intel Bay Trail PCIe Root
> Port (PCI bridge, revision 0x0c) [ppb2] 000:31:0: Intel Bay Trail LPC
> Interface Bridge (ISA bridge, revision 0x0c) [pcib0] 000:31:3: Intel
> Bay Trail PCU SMBus (SMBus serial bus, revision 0x0c) [ichsmb0]
> 002:00:0: Atheros Communications AR9565 Wireless LAN (miscellaneous
> network, revision 0x01) 003:00:0: Realtek Semiconductor
> 8100E/8101E/8102E 10/100 Ethernet (ethernet network, revision 0x07)
> [re0]
> 
> 
> *****************
> ifconfig re0
> *****************
> 
> re0: flags=0x8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> 	capabilities=0x3f80<TSO4,IP4CSUM_Rx,IP4CSUM_Tx,TCP4CSUM_Rx,TCP4CSUM_Tx>
> 	capabilities=0x3f80<UDP4CSUM_Rx,UDP4CSUM_Tx>
> 	enabled=0
> 	ec_capabilities=0x3<VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING>
> 	ec_enabled=0
> 	address: ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff
> 	media: Ethernet none (none)