Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:41:33 +1000 From: Chris Pauly <l@binkyware.com> To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: 'vr' driver is broken Message-ID: <4.2.2.20000725204805.00a8e6c8@blah>
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Hello, It has been a long time since i discovered this driver being broken, and again after upgrading from 3.5-STABLE to 4.1-RC (after falling back to 3.x after an upgrade to 4.x and finding out the driver was broken), it is _still_ broken. I have tried contacting the author (Bill Paul), but no reply. I have a D-Link DFE-530TX NIC on a AOpen AX59 Pro motherboard. Works like a charm under FreeBSD 3.x - solid 11.5MB/s computer <-> computer or computer -> switch -> ??. But ever since FreeBSD 4.x it has been broken. Attempting to do anything but low-bandwidth telnet results in the network locking up and dying - sometimes resetting much later. No errors in syslog (some people have reported a "Watchdog Timeout" error, and i have seen this myself but not for a while). The only way to fix this is to force the card into 10Mbps half-duplex where i get 1MB/s fine and there are no lockups (although a lot of collisions). Nothing wrong with the cables, i have tried them all with both of the NICs in the FreeBSD machine to either a computer or a switch (vr and rl). Solid 11.5MB/s (except of course from vr on 4.x) Could somebody please fix the driver? Or give me a way of contacting the author? Or contact the author? Or rewrite it? Anything? It has been broken for such a long time.. Or perhaps if anybody has had success with the 'vr' driver on OpenBSD? The source looks a fair bit different compared to the FreeBSD version, so perhaps it will work? Regards, Chris To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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