Hi Thierry, I too have this chip, and have been attempting to add some preliminary support for it in ether8169.c. I have a (WIP) patch hosted at http://oneiri.one/ether8169.patch. It's a bit of a mess right now. I have added some nominal support for other cards with the same register set, but have not tested these other chips, have you been able to tease out the exact version id for your model?
Regarding hwvid masks, I encountered this too when adding support. If you look in the linux driver, they use a lookup table where each card has a specific mask (either 7c8 or 7cf). In general, they use the 7cf mask when they need to be more discerning about which card to match on (e.g. RTL8125D and ... another slightly different RTL8125D). I didn't want to break compatibility for older cards by outright using the more restrictive mask, so my change attempts to use the restrictive mask first, and then more lenient one if that fails. The drivers for these newer nics are muddied with (mostly) nameless registers and values to set, so it was a bit difficult figuring out which pieces to pull together. The BSD's also include microcode in lieu of firmware, which is actually the vendor driver's default. I found that I didn't actually need to set them in my case, but we'll see how it works out overtime, and with other chips. Aidan ------------------------------------------ 9fans: 9fans Permalink: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/T832e366730c74bfa-Medc81e0f9f623d225a3861fb Delivery options: https://9fans.topicbox.com/groups/9fans/subscription
