Realtek 8111G Support

stephenw10

Support (at least prelimenary) was added to the re(4) driver in FreeBSD 10.

http://svnweb.freebsd.org/base/release/10.0.0/sys/dev/re/if_re.c?revision=257615&view=markup

I assume that will be in 2.2?

Steve

Panoptic

I was able to compile a working AMD64 module for the 8111G. I just downloaded the latest source code from realtek and compiled on freebsd 8.3. Tested with great results on the Shuttle DS47 both ports functional.

Attached is the compiled module. It is a zip file with a .txt extension. Just rename to .zip and extract the module in /boot/modules

Add the following code to /boot/loader.conf.local (create the file if it does not exist!) I had to use a USB ethernet controller to get past the initial boot process and copy the module.```
if_re_load="YES"


[if_re.txt](/public/_imported_attachments_/1/if_re.txt)

compdoc

I started looking at the file sizes of the drivers compiled and shared here in this forum as well as others shared online, and I noticed they kept getting larger and larger. So, i decided to try compiling the driver myself on my KBN-I/2100 board. Its an x86_64 cpu, and I have pfSense 2.1-RELEASE (amd64) installed. It turns out mine is slightly larger than the others here, but it works well and I'll include it in case it helps someone.

To compile, first I installed freeBSD 8.3 and then fetched and installed all updates, which brought the OS to FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p14. I assume there's a way to limit the release to p11, but a quick search didn't tell me. Doesn't seem to be a problem, and hopefully someone reading this can let me know if it is.

Following the instructions included with the driver source from Realtek, (version 1.84, dated 2014/3/4) I compiled the driver and copied the file 'if_re.ko' to /boot/kernel/. I also modified /boot/loader.conf.local to contain if_re_load="YES" as mentioned in previous posts. And I made sure that the file was marked executable and matched the permissions of the other drivers in the folder.

Rename the attached file to if_re.zip to extract the driver.

Notes: 1) Looks like you should actually place the driver in /boot/modules instead, but this works too.

There's a typo in the Makefile that prevents 'make install' from finishing. You have to change the word kldx[1~ref to kldxref
After compiling and installing if_re.ko on the FreeBSD test machine, DHCP stops working until you change the file /etc/rc.conf. Change the line: ifconfig_re0="DHCP" to: ifconfig_re0="SYNCDHCP". However, this change isn't necessary in pfSense

if_re.txt

ndeppe

Thanks, compdoc! I just put together a machine using an ECS H87H3-M3(1.0) motherboard with a RealTek 8111G onboard NIC. I was able to get this working using your files. Well, at least it is recognized now. I still have to test with a real live connection.

compdoc

I said in a note that SYNCDHCP isn't needed for pfSense, but I might be wrong about that. I use Comcast which uses DHCP for my external address, and sometimes in the wee hours of the morning my connection was going down. My dashboard was showing:

Gateway: WAN_DHCP Status: Offline

Since I had a problem with DHCP when using the compiled driver on freebsd, I decided to make a change in pfSense to the file /etc/defaults/rc.conf

I made the change: synchronous_dhclient="YES" and the gateway stopped going down.

However, there is another setting for gateways that might solve this problem too: Probe Interval and Down seconds.

stroths

@compdoc:

I started looking at the file sizes of the drivers compiled and shared here in this forum as well as others shared online, and I noticed they kept getting larger and larger. So, i decided to try compiling the driver myself on my KBN-I/2100 board. Its an x86_64 cpu, and I have pfSense 2.1-RELEASE (amd64) installed. It turns out mine is slightly larger than the others here, but it works well and I'll include it in case it helps someone.

To compile, first I installed freeBSD 8.3 and then fetched and installed all updates, which brought the OS to FreeBSD 8.3-RELEASE-p14. I assume there's a way to limit the release to p11, but a quick search didn't tell me. Doesn't seem to be a problem, and hopefully someone reading this can let me know if it is.

Following the instructions included with the driver source from Realtek, (version 1.84, dated 2014/3/4) I compiled the driver and copied the file 'if_re.ko' to /boot/kernel/. I also modified /boot/loader.conf.local to contain if_re_load="YES" as mentioned in previous posts. And I made sure that the file was marked executable and matched the permissions of the other drivers in the folder.

Rename the attached file to if_re.zip to extract the driver.

Notes: 1) Looks like you should actually place the driver in /boot/modules instead, but this works too.

There's a typo in the Makefile that prevents 'make install' from finishing. You have to change the word kldx[1~ref to kldxref

After compiling and installing if_re.ko on the FreeBSD test machine, DHCP stops working until you change the file /etc/rc.conf. Change the line: ifconfig_re0="DHCP" to: ifconfig_re0="SYNCDHCP". However, this change isn't necessary in pfSense
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Your file and instructions helped fix my issue. Thank you

darkwood

Hi guys,

I followed the instructions in the post, and I have performed the following steps:

1. install freebsd 8.3. in my machine and compile the realtek driver.
2. install pfsense and load the module created with my freebsd 8.3

When load the module my pfsense crash,

I installed the alpha version pfsense 2.2 and works properly.

Any ideas??

Thanks in advanced.

stephenw10

It just crashes with no error?

Steve

compdoc

did you try loading the driver you compiled in FreeBSD 8.3?

elbek

Hi.

Thank you so much to NeverSimple for your answer: https://forum.pfsense.org/index.php?topic=65355.msg365028#msg365028

I have a Gigabyte C1037UN with 2 onboard ethernet cards that not working properly with pfsense 2.1.4-amd64

I followed up instructions exactly as NeverSimple posted and now pfsense is working perfectly.

Thanks again!!!