Re: Issues with Realtek ethernet card - NetBSD 11

[mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst)]

falcon%gnuhealth.org@localhost (Luis Falcon) writes:

>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".


re(4) is the driver for the MAC engine, rgephy(4) is the driver for
the PHY (tranceiver).

Some chips combine both functions into a single package.

Here I get:

[     1.016855] re0 at pci3 dev 0 function 0: RealTek 8168/8111 PCIe Gigabit Eth
ernet (rev. 0x15)
[     1.016855] rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8251 1000BASE-T media interface, rev. 0


Your RTL8169SBL should be supported, but apparently it's not responding.
You also see that the driver reads ff:ff:ff:ff:ff:ff as ethernet address
which is another sign that the chip doesn't respond or isn't accessed
correctly.