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NAME
re
- RealTek 8139C+/8169/816xS/811xS/8101E PCI/PCIe Ethernet adapter driver
SYNOPSIS
To compile this driver into the kernel,
place the following lines in your
kernel configuration file:
device miibusdevice re
Alternatively, to load the driver as a
module at boot time, place the following line in
loader.conf5:
if_re_load="YES"
DESCRIPTION
The
driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek RTL8139C+,
RTL8169, RTL8169S, RTL8110S, RTL8168S, RTL8111S and RTL8101E PCI and
PCIe Ethernet controllers.
NICs based on the 8139C+ and 8101E are capable of 10 and 100Mbps speeds
over CAT5 cable.
NICs based on the 8169, 816xS and 811xS are capable of 10, 100 and
1000Mbps operation.
All NICs supported by the
driver have TCP/IP checksum offload and hardware VLAN tagging/insertion
features, and use a descriptor-based DMA mechanism.
They are also
capable of TCP large send (TCP segmentation offload).
The 8139C+ is a single-chip solution combining both a 10/100 MAC and PHY.
The 8169 is a 10/100/1000 MAC only, requiring a GMII or TBI external PHY.
The 8169S and 8110S are single-chip devices containing both a 10/100/1000
MAC and 10/100/1000 copper PHY.
Standalone 10/100/1000 cards are available
in both 32-bit PCI and 64-bit PCI models.
The 8110S is designed for
embedded LAN-on-motherboard applications.
The 8169, 8169S and 8110S also support jumbo frames, which can be configured
via the interface MTU setting.
The MTU is limited to 7422, since the chip cannot transmit larger frames.
Selecting an MTU larger than 1500 bytes with the
ifconfig(8)
utility configures the adapter to receive and transmit jumbo frames.
The
driver supports the following media types:
autoselect
Enable autoselection of the media type and options.
The user can manually override
the autoselected mode by adding media options to
rc.conf5.
10baseT/UTP
Set 10Mbps operation.
The
ifconfig(8)
mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
full-duplex
or
half-duplex
modes.
100baseTX
Set 100Mbps (Fast Ethernet) operation.
The
ifconfig(8)
mediaopt
option can also be used to select either
full-duplex
or
half-duplex
modes.
1000baseTX
Set 1000baseTX operation over twisted pair.
The RealTek gigE chips support 1000Mbps in
full-duplex
mode only.
The
driver supports the following media options:
full-duplex
Force full duplex operation.
half-duplex
Force half duplex operation.
For more information on configuring this device, see
ifconfig(8).
HARDWARE
The
driver supports RealTek RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL816xS, RTL811xS,
and RTL8101E based Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet adapters including:
The Xterasys XN-152 32-bit PCI NIC, which uses the RTL8169 MAC and
Marvell 88E1000 PHY, has a defect that causes DMA corruption
if the board is plugged into a 64-bit PCI slot.
The defect
lies in the board design, not the chip itself: the PCI REQ64# and ACK64#
lines should be pulled high, but they are not.
The result is that the
8169 chip is tricked into performing 64-bit DMA transfers even though
a 64-bit data path between the NIC and the bus does not actually exist.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to correct this problem in software,
however it is possible to detect it.
When the
driver is loaded, it will run a diagnostic routine designed to
validate DMA operation by placing the chip in digital loopback mode
and initiating a packet transmission.
If the card functions properly,
the transmitted data will
be echoed back unmodified.
If the echoed data is corrupt, the driver
will print an error message on the console and abort the device attach.
The
user should insure the NIC is installed in a 32-bit PCI slot to
avoid this problem.
The RealTek 8169, 8169S and 8110S chips appear to only be capable of
transmitting jumbo frames up to 7.5K in size.
