Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:31:17 -0800 From: Jack Vogel <jfvogel@gmail.com> To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with ixgbe Message-ID: <2a41acea0901251231w5dc6b739k420d41e8d4b7f3d7@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <471411.45398.qm@web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com>
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On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Barney Cordoba <barney_cordoba@yahoo.com>wrote: > I'm trying to fire up a couple of 10g cards (2 different cards with 82598 > NICs) hooked up back to back, and I'm having nothing but problems. I haven't > gotten the latest version 1.5.6 driver to work under any circumstances. I've > gotten the 1.2.16 driver that came in 7.0-RELEASE to work once on fresh > boots on each machine, but then when rebooting one of the machines nothing > could be done to get them to talk again. I did do quite a bit of testing so > it doesn't seem that the cards are faulty. Its just wholly unreliable. It > seems that they just don't transmit the frames properly. netstat -i shows > outgoing packets but internal hw.ix.0.stats show none transmitted when > enabled. I've tried disabling MSI-X, using just 1 queue, all with the same > result. > > I don't have a 7.1 or 8 machine to test with at this location, so I don't > know if there is something in 7.0-RELEASE that just won't work with these > cards. I don't want to beat my head too badly, or spend time debugging if > its just not going to work. > > First, should 1.5.6 work in 7.0? The README indicates it should. It makes > little sense debugging an old driver. > > > Barney > > > > Barney, You never give specifics on your failures. The 1.5.6 driver should work, however there is newer code, I just have been too busy internally to get it checked in yet. Give me more exact details, what hardware, how is it hooked up, etc etc... Jackhome | help
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