@nikolam -> your card is 10ec,8161, which we do not have immediate support for, but honestly, probably should, and with a few mods we could. This is only GigE right? Not 2.5 or faster?

Also @nikolam if I spun a PI with that PCI ID folded in, would you be able to test it? (And if so, ISO, PI, or USB ?)

danmcd, thanks a lot for your interest. yes, just a Gigabit one

Yes danmcd I would love to get that PI

Which form factor do you prefer your spin?

I have both booting from USB and also can boot from HDD, so switching PI is trivial for me

Maybe one from HDD is better for testing, before it lands hopefully on one for USB. I anyway, usually update USB with unpacking it.

So a PI .tgz file is sufficient. TY. Can't promise something, but if it's only adding a PCI ID it should be quick to bringup.

And if it works for you, the plan would be for it to land in illumos-gate first so all distros can enjoy it.

Actually I think it is not only adding PCI ID.. I think after adding PCI ID it is not even showing in dladm show-phys anymore.

Currently in my /etc/driver_aliases it is there: rge "pci10ec,8168"

So it is there and does not works for me..

Actually, it is written in driver_aliases as rge "pci10ec,8168,p" huh

The ",p" means it MUST match the literal device id.

your prtconf says:

device-id: 00008161

vendor-id: 000010ec

No 8161.

Illumos bugs fenix illumos#17571 and illumos#17570 are relevant here.

BUG 17571: rge(4D) should not bind to Realtek BMC device (Closed)

↳ illumos.org/issues/17571 | code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4362

BUG 17570: rge(4D) should aim before shooting (Closed)

↳ illumos.org/issues/17570 | code.illumos.org/c/illumos-gate/+/4363

I probably have to add 8161,p to it.

So I can test if you make it

If it doesn't fix it, i am interested in deep diving, whatever is needed to make it work, I think it is of wider interest, too.

@nikolam I'm not sure if this may just work, but did I ask you to try the following earlier?

1.) Edit /etc/driver_aliases and add this line:

rge "pci10ec,8161,p"

2.) Utter "devfsadm"

3.) See if `dladm show-ether` starts showing rge0 ?

If that Just Works, the change will be simple. If it doesn't, I won't have the time to dig deeply right away.

I will say that if you wish to deep-dive, consult FreeBSD's rl/if_rlreg.h for constant definitions, and their re/if_re.c for their moral equivalent of our rge for what revisions may need to be added in some cases.

(IMHO our rge *might* be capable of doing both the 1Gbit *and* future 2.5 & 5 but that'll require work, and probably looking at FreeBSD as Realtek has been, apparently in the past, loathe to share HW documentation.)