Date: Wed, 29 Aug 2007 12:22:19 +0200 From: "Julian Stacey" <jhs@berklix.org> To: freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: nve0 reports 10M but works at 100M, + date problem on Siemens board. Message-ID: <200708291022.l7TAMJaI077868@fire.js.berklix.net>
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Hi freebsd-isp@freebsd.org 2 problems seen on a Siemens board (with 6.2-RELEASE): - nve0 reports 10M but works at 100Mbit/s. - date time loss . If anyone else has experience of these boards, please let me know: board I tested: http://support.fujitsu-siemens.com/Manuals/ShowDescription_KMT.asp?DokuID=200449 # Off web seemed newer on HTML page, but PDF is same Ed. 3 Paper manual marked A26361-D2000-Z120-1-7419, Ausgabe 3, August 2005 a26361-d2000-z120-en.pdf Manual in English is inferior to German original, I guess these first/primarily sold into servers in German speaking markets. (So trying isp@ before perhaps hardware@ later). Ethernet Problem: With /etc/rc.conf ifconfig_nve0="inet 192.168.91.110 media autoselect" ifconfig reports media: Ethernet autoselect (10baseT/UTP) although shows data actually moves at 100 Meg bit/sec. Not sure if this is standard to driver or unique to mainboard. This when connected to 3 different 100M switches (no 1G switch to test). Ethernet Driver In FreeBSD is a binary BLOB /usr/src/sys/contrib/dev/nve/i386/ nvenetlib.README "Customer may not reverse engineer, decompile..." BIOS DVD seems to indicate same or similar BLOB for Linux & MS. There's a newer Nvidia driver in current source: ftp/pub/FreeBSD/branches/-current/src/sys/dev/nfe/ "Driver for NVIDIA nForce MCP Fast Ethernet and Gigabit Ethernet" Clock Problem: Main board(s) have a strange problem with date after reboot losing time (but only with FreeBSD, not with BIOS only or Linux ?! ) apparently mboards have 3 counters, it's being investigated by others with new battery & resetting BIOS defaults etc. I don't currently have access to these boards at a client site, but in contact. Any experiences to swap/ comments ? Julian -- Julian Stacey. Munich Consultant: BSD Unix Linux. http://berklix.com Ihr Rauch=mein allergischer Kopfschmerz. Dump cigs 4 snuff.
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