danmcd, dladm show-ether shows nothing new , I aslo have another card using rge driver in the same machine, 8111 that one is external interface and it works. No new one showed

I am currently looking only on 1GB one, that is what pci10ec,8161 is for

Yes.

There are other bits to check. Hang on and I'll show what I'm talking about.

Lo9ok at the `rge_phy_init()` function. I fully expect the rgep->chipid.mac_ver to produce something that needs to be checked.

We define these MAC_VER_ values in rge_hw.h.

FreeBSD defines them in sys/dev/rl/if_rlreg.h (rl is their 100Mbit, re is their Gbit, and rge is their > Gbit, but they ALL USE THE SAME HEADER FROM rl !!!)

Now unless you know how to get RealTek to cough up a reference manual, the only thing we have is to poke around FreeBSD and reverse from there. I wouldn't use Linux to avoid GPL contamination, and if we pull bits from there we should use our existing naming scheme, etc. etc.

Yeah... we'll need to revisit things like TX_CONFIG_REG, TX_CONFIG_REG_RESV to pull in some newer-model 1Gbit rge(4D) parts for us.

(And ENOCYCLES for me on that right now, alas.)

I'm sorry. It might not be TOO difficult, but I can't dig into it now. Sorry @nikolam

danmcd, thank you much. Right. It is insight into right direction.