MikroTik

Posted: **Thu Mar 14, 2013 11:21 am**

Working with an Aopen 945GSE+Atom N270 motherboard, there are two Realtek RTL8111D GE lan port on this motherboard, all works fine with RouterOS 5.24, This is the PCI information under RouterOS 5.24:

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and this is the RTL8111D information

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below is the problem:
1. when I install RC6.11 with netinstall, the system will freeze for a few minutes like crack down . there is no this problem with RouterOS 5.24.
2. After RC6.11 installed, System can boot normally, but I must wait several minuts for the RTL8111D begin to work,and randomly the Atheros AR9380 wireless card can't work(can't see with "/interface print " command). and the same problem after reboot.

Posted: **Sat Apr 20, 2013 3:57 pm**

I tried 6.0RC13, still has this problem.
It seems the two Realtek rtl8111D on Aopen 945GSE motherboard has no external eeprom chip( can't read eeprom data with pg8168.exe utilitis ), and the Realtek 8111D driver of RouterOS has some problem.
BTW: with RouterOS 5.24, the rtl8111D occasionally works abnormal after system reboot, it seems the driver of rtl8111D is ok, but no data transfer, windows system prompt cord unpluged.

I tried Openwrt, the two Realtek rtl8111D works all fine. the Openwrt use realtek 8169 driver.
this is the RTL8111D information under Openwrt

# uname -a
Linux OpenWrt 3.8.8 #1 Sat Apr 20 15:23:41 CST 2013 i686 GNU/Linux
# lspci -v
....
02:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: AOPEN Inc. Device 0700
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 43
        I/O ports at dc00 [size=256]
        Memory at fdeff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at fdef8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Expansion ROM at feae0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
        Capabilities: [ac] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
        Capabilities: [cc] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
        Kernel driver in use: r8169

03:00.0 Ethernet controller: Realtek Semiconductor Co., Ltd. RTL8111/8168B PCI Express Gigabit Ethernet controller (rev 03)
        Subsystem: AOPEN Inc. Device 0700
        Flags: bus master, fast devsel, latency 0, IRQ 44
        I/O ports at ec00 [size=256]
        Memory at fdfff000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=4K]
        Memory at fdff8000 (64-bit, prefetchable) [size=16K]
        Expansion ROM at febe0000 [disabled] [size=128K]
        Capabilities: [40] Power Management version 3
        Capabilities: [50] MSI: Enable+ Count=1/1 Maskable- 64bit+
        Capabilities: [70] Express Endpoint, MSI 01
        Capabilities: [ac] MSI-X: Enable- Count=4 Masked-
        Capabilities: [cc] Vital Product Data
        Capabilities: [100] Advanced Error Reporting
        Capabilities: [140] Virtual Channel
        Capabilities: [160] Device Serial Number 01-00-00-00-68-4c-e0-00
        Kernel driver in use: r8169

Posted: **Tue Mar 04, 2014 6:19 pm**

Now I know what cause this problem. this mainboard's eeprom is empty, the NIC's config is saved in "efuse" of Realtek NIC, But the RouterOS's kernel driver can't work very well with Realtek's efuse of RTL8111. maybe other NIC use efuse have same problem?

MikroTik

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