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re(4)

NAME

     re -- RealTek 8139C+/8169/8169S/8110S PCI Ethernet adapter driver

SYNOPSIS

     device miibus
     device re

DESCRIPTION

     The re driver provides support for various NICs based on the RealTek
     RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S PCI Ethernet controllers.

     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 avail-
     able 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 config-
     ured 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 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).
     o	 Gigabyte 7N400 Pro2 Integrated Gigabit Ethernet (8110S)
     o	 LevelOne GNC-0105T (8169S)
     o	 PLANEX COMMUNICATIONS Inc. GN-1200TC (8169S)
     o	 Xterasys XN-152 10/100/1000 NIC (8169)

DIAGNOSTICS

     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).

SEE ALSO

     arp(4), miibus(4), netintro(4), ng_ether(4), polling(4), vlan(4),
     ifconfig(8)

     RealTek Semiconductor RTL8139C+, RTL8169, RTL8169S and RTL8110S
     datasheets, http://www.realtek.com.tw/.

HISTORY

     The re device driver first appeared in FreeBSD 5.2.

AUTHORS

     The re driver was written by Bill Paul <wpaul@windriver.com>.

BUGS

     The Xterasys XN-152 32-bit PCI NIC, which uses the RTL8169 MAC and Mar-
     vell 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 per-
     forming 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 plac-
     ing the chip in digital loopback mode and initiating a packet transmis-
     sion.  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

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