From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jul 26 20:42:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mr14.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au (mr14.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au [24.192.1.29]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DB80537C078 for ; Wed, 26 Jul 2000 20:42:23 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from l@binkyware.com) Received: from x (CPE-144-132-43-152.vic.bigpond.net.au [144.132.43.152]) by mr14.vic-remote.bigpond.net.au (Pro-8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id NAA09930 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:42:21 +1000 (EST) Message-Id: <4.2.2.20000725204805.00a8e6c8@blah> X-Sender: l@mail.csoft.net (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 4.2.2 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:41:33 +1000 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG From: Chris Pauly Subject: 'vr' driver is broken Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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