Does FreeBSD support one of these Ethernet controllers

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I am assembling a new PC in a few days and am still choosing the motherboard. I wanted to know if FreeBSD supports one of the two Ethernet controllers:
  • Realtek 8111G
  • Intel I217V
Does FreeBSD support one of the two? I did find a FreeBSD driver(s) for both these controllers but no information about support. Are these controllers supported?
 
The Realtek should be supported by the re(4) driver. I'm not sure which driver to use for the Intel card. Which driver did you find?
 
Did you try loading the igb(4) kernel module. That should load support for your gigabit Intel card from the kernel.
 
zspider said:
Did you try loading the igb(4) kernel module. That should load support for your gigabit Intel card from the kernel.
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I did not get the motherboard yet, so I can't test. I'm still on my old PC (Dell Inspiron 537 with a Realtek 10/100) which I'm giving to my parents. And I'm considering a motherboard (Asus H87M-E to be exact) which has the Realtek controller.
 
Hey,

I know it's an old post, but I noticed FreeBSD drivers for the I217-V adapter on the Intel website: https://downloadcenter.intel.com/Detail_Desc.aspx?agr=Y&DwnldID=17509&keyword=freebsd&lang=eng

It appears that this driver version is already in 9.2RC3:
Code: 
$ grep em_driver_version /usr/src/sys/dev/e1000/if_em.c
char em_driver_version[] = "7.3.8";

So I believe 9.2 has I217-V support in out of the box in kernel. I'm going to purchase ASUS Z87-Pro and hope to have ethernet working.

UPDATED:
I've purchased Z87-PLUS. Built-in ethernet adapter works under 9.2RC3
 
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