Legacy Realtek motherboards running on Gigabit adapters with unlabeled VLAN settings
Legacy Realtek motherboards running on Gigabit adapters with unlabeled VLAN settings
I'm trying to get this to work with an older Gigabyte GA Motherboard (GA-970A-UD3P rev. 1.0 ) The onboard Realtek chip is an RTL8111F Realtek Website says it supports VLAN tagging. Tried various versions of the driver and Diagnostic utility including the latest combination of driver and utility specifically for the list of chips/controllers that has the 8111F listed in that list. In all cases the Utility only shows some very basic read only information and there are absolutely no options to DO anything like add a VLAN or do or look anything else. Information in the diagnostic utility is view only and there are no options as shown in many online post that illustrating using the utility to add a VLAN. I also tried an older driver and diag utility from the motherboard's support page from 2018. Same problem. Windows 10 Pro 64bit clean install and up to date. Information shown view only in the utility and is a single page including: Mac Address: IP address: Connection name: Ethernet Link Status: 1000Mbps Duplex Mode: Full Duplex Vendor ID: 10EC Device ID: 8168 SubVendor ID: 1458 SubSystem ID: E000 Revision ID: 06 IO Address: D000 Memory Address: FE200000 Interrupt Number: 0xfffffff6 Nothing more, nothing to see or do. Newer driver lets me set on single VLAN ID in advanced settings in the driver itself. Does not create an additional tagged VLAN adaptor. And I actually need to be able to do that. Many online posts suggest ans show that you can do this with the Realtek Diagnostic utility and show pictures where you have all those options to do so. The older driver from 2018 does not let me set the VLAN ID in advanced settings on the driver, has "Priority and VLAN" field. And does not allow any further config or any kind of config in the "diagnostic utility". Might I have a chip that is dumbed down and not documented anywhere on the Internet that it is dumbed down or options taken off of it or disabled? Latest diagnostic utility is 2.0.7.3 Driver version from Realtek is 10.63.1014.2022 dated 10-14-2022 If I pull it and let windows install its own driver (from 2015) I have same problem and cannot to any VLAN tasks nothing to do in the Realtek Diagnostic utility. Repeating myself, many online examples show using the Realtek diagnostic utility to add a VLAN. I also had a look on a much newer computer with a newer Realtek built on NIC and it works as expected here and has all of the items and abilities to add tagged VLAN virtual adaptors to the system. Going to double cjeck on this PC/motherboard thatIf I fire up the same hardware in Linux/BSD/PFSense that I have the *usual* ability to simple add tagged vlan virtual adaptors to the same Realtek NIC.
Functions operate correctly with PFSense. VLAN virtual interfaces are set up and perform well.
I think the problem is that there isn't really much to discuss. If the driver doesn't work as you want then you are kind of screwed. Judging by your description and troubleshooting, it seems like that particular chipset has a limitation in its Windows driver. It will be hard or impossible to get around that.