re -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI ethernet adapter driver
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device re
The re driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek
RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI ethernet controllers,
including the following:
+o Alloy Computer Products EtherGOLD 1439E 10/100 (8139C+)
+o Compaq Evo N1015v Integrated Ethernet (8139C+)
+o Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (8110S)
+o Xterasys XN-152 10/100/1000 NIC (8169)
NICs based on the 8139C+ are capable of 10 and 100Mbps speeds over CAT5
cable. NICs based on the 8169, 8169S and 8110S are capable of 10, 100 and
1000Mbps operation.
All NICs supported by the re 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. Selecting an MTU larger than 1500
bytes with the ifconfig(8) utility configures the adapter to receive and
transmit jumbo frames.
The re 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.conf(5).
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 re 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).
re%d: couldn't map memory A fatal initialization error has occurred.
re%d: couldn't map ports A fatal initialization error has occurred.
re%d: couldn't map interrupt A fatal initialization error has occurred.
re%d: no memory for softc struct! The driver failed to allocate memory
for per-device instance information during initialization.
re%d: failed to enable memory mapping! The driver failed to initialize
PCI shared memory mapping. This might happen if the card is not in a
bus-master slot.
re%d: no memory for jumbo buffers! The driver failed to allocate memory
for jumbo frames during initialization.
re%d: watchdog timeout The device has stopped responding to the network,
or there is a problem with the network connection (cable).
arp(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), vlan(4), ifconfig(8)
RealTek Semiconductor RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S
datasheets, http://www.realtek.com.tw.
The re device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.2.
The re driver was written by Bill Paul <[email protected]>.
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 re 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.
FreeBSD 5.2.1 September 4, 2003 FreeBSD 5.2.1 [ Back ] |
