Re: Issues with Realtek ethernet card - NetBSD 11

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

El Mon, 31 Aug 2026 11:35:05 -0000 (UTC)
mlelstv%serpens.de@localhost (Michael van Elst) escribió:
> 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
> 

I never get to see the PHY driver that both you and Greg get :/

> 
> 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.
> 
Thank you! I just replied Greg message to the list with a more detailed
log on PCI info specific to the interface and some boot time errors.
I don't know whether is the chipset that is not supported or that is
faulty, but we'll get to that point :)

Best,
Luis