From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 21:03:27 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF82A1065758 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: from wa-out-1112.google.com (wa-out-1112.google.com [209.85.146.178]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7B72B8FC63 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:03:27 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from jfvogel@gmail.com) Received: by wa-out-1112.google.com with SMTP id k34so378787wah.27 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:03:26 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:cc:content-type; bh=96ubDXR6ft6kHYHPIB2JaenkHnR0Adr2i0c4gV67uHE=; b=MVYI7yk/o1vehR1dkpHkkHe5H0NQJbd6fKhSNR9ajiGUELlicQt8nBMbIYN1gr+i9D bppEGdJaHGm0SgUyZw06JWxya+ghdWMFjidGx+vSNRRKvbX71TD25Btul4Vi4tvFnhN1 mEGxmlL/JY8OR91ldKhBsLtmjFudpprjcEyM8= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :cc:content-type; b=iC1Malbcv1Bv6nS74tvUFt4udVmhNakH8WkHlZabu2JHT/rGgO+1U9y68gRm+7LgNj ACYE7ZcF9kUF9ebXhEjiRkQ/PcF4b5+diCb5vk9wS+/TJYkmkm/UyNr/GpAUipnkYqw4 9YJXjG9F8rGeQ0D1QfBTAn86/tssg3J9Fxp98= MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.114.144.1 with SMTP id r1mr3872991wad.2.1232915477187; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:31:17 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: <471411.45398.qm@web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com> References: <471411.45398.qm@web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 12:31:17 -0800 Message-ID: <2a41acea0901251231w5dc6b739k420d41e8d4b7f3d7@mail.gmail.com> From: Jack Vogel To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Filtered-By: Mailman/MimeDel 2.1.5 Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Problems with ixgbe X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:03:31 -0000 On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 5:44 AM, Barney Cordoba 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... Jack