Trying to find out which Realtek drivers are being used?

jshoe

I'm trying to find out which Realtek network drivers are being used prior to updating them. I read that kldstat tells you this, but I see this sh: Kldstat: not found.

Any ideas? I'm not really familiar with the CLI on FreeBSD.

Thanks

patient0

@jshoe upper and lowercase is important in *nix: Kldstat is not valid but kldstat is:

root: kldstat
Id Refs Address                Size Name
 1   15 0xffffffff80200000  339ce08 kernel
 3    1 0xffffffff83b75000    1e2b0 opensolaris.ko
 4    1 0xffffffff84418000     2220 cpuctl.ko
 5    1 0xffffffff8441b000     3210 intpm.ko
 6    1 0xffffffff8441f000     2178 smbus.ko
 8    1 0xffffffff84451000     9288 aesni.ko
 9    1 0xffffffff84422000    2e560 if_wg.ko

How and where do you execute the command?

stephenw10

kldstat will only show you if you're running the alternative driver by loading a kernel module.

If you are running that you will see the driver version reported when it loads in the boot log like:

re0: <Realtek PCIe GbE Family Controller> port 0x1000-0x10ff mem 0xf7900000-0xf7900fff,0xf7800000-0xf7803fff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci1
re0: Using Memory Mapping!
re0: Using 1 MSI-X message
re0: ASPM disabled
re0: version:1.99.04
re0: Ethernet address: 00:0d:b9:37:30:10

Otherwise you would be using the in-kernel driver which doesn't report a version.

Steve

jshoe

@stephenw10 is there anyway to tell the version or do I have to look up the kernel version and find it?

All I want to do is get my box to stop randomly dropping out with high throughput.... I've seen a few ways to get alternate drivers. Do I need to edit the configuration file or is running install cmd enough?

Thanks

stephenw10

To run the alternate re driver install the kmod pkg:

pkg install realtek-re-kmod

Then add the required loader lines by running:

echo 'if_re_load="YES"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local
echo 'if_re_name="/boot/modules/if_re.ko"' >> /boot/loader.conf.local

Then reboot and check the boot logs.

jshoe

@stephenw10 Great, thanks. Is there a way to run this from the web based command prompt? I try running it but I'm unable to input Y for yes. Thanks

stephenw10

Yup, use: pkg install -y realtek-re-kmod

Though, if you can, I would always use the real command line so you can see any errors produced.

jshoe

@stephenw10 no more random drops. Thanks!