I experience similar null MAC and silent interface on my Linkstar H68K. Keep me posted about your findings.
--Z-- 2024. jan. 14. 3:07:27 Benjamin Raskin <[email protected]>: > Hello, All; > > I've been trying to configure a Realtek RTL8111H NIC on a Raspberry Pi > CM4 board, however I have encountered several issues. > > This is the CM4 breakout board I'm using, the NIC is attached to > the Pi via PCIe bus. > > Below is the `pcidump` output > > 0:0:0: Broadcom BCM2711 > 1:0:0: Realtek 8168 > > The first issue is that the MAC address of the NIC is all zeros. > > While it's no problem for me to set a MAC address for the device, upon > attempting to ping the LAN router no packets exit the NIC. However other > devices on the network can ping the NIC. In other words the NIC cannot > send packets, but it can receive packets. tcpdump shows no packets > either, so I'm left blind and can't seem to figure out how to diagnose > the issue. > > Below is the `ifconfig re0` output > > re0: flags=808843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,AUTOCONF4> mtu 1500 > lladdr 00:e0:4c:eb:9d:15 > index 1 priority 0 llprio 3 > groups: egress > media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT > full-duplex,master,rxpause,txpause) > status: active > inet 192.168.0.42 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255 > > Below is the `dmesg` output for the re(0) device > > re0 at pci1 dev 0 function 0 "Realtek 8168" rev 0x15: RTL8168H/8111H > (0x5400), intx, address 00:00:00:00:00:00 > rgephy0 at re0 phy 7: RTL8251 PHY, rev. 0 > > Has anyone else seen this issue? Is there something else I need to > configure to make the NIC work? > > Thank you in advance. > > > Ben Raskin

