From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Nov 3 00:17:48 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5B0B1106564A; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:17:48 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: from ti-out-0910.google.com (ti-out-0910.google.com [209.85.142.189]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 891968FC1F; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 00:17:47 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: by ti-out-0910.google.com with SMTP id d27so1186846tid.3 for ; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:17:46 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:received:received:date:from :to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; bh=dyxGAn0/K6G1Y+hHBAFD4aSDyoSsxkixFB5MjDTFaMg=; b=a8nNTJwFhknmwVJArSW/UHm4GM1McM8DHwKJK6NFDhWZ/hTFOfcQwcuTFkcZ/E8vJw o4hlSnYUcVzCxcXUfl12FL3n7FR07OzcDHvkOc+Yevt8a/UeVIaJEy0JyCZhi+9PRk+X F62khjuw8CY8SmTWwUfd82USyuoqNHVdEhbjI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=date:from:to:cc:subject:message-id:reply-to:references:mime-version :content-type:content-disposition:in-reply-to:user-agent; b=gRU8PONOiuR1vTZab0vjw5/S76CoVQKKRSud6vEV8tbbDrWj+A5+p0VhXUy6hdz5ZN QoWYnuAdq06MEAp02KEdiOEHvMUOnneB+T/5vurW/X/Wu52r5CdUadw0s/QwMAuc7qbu 4JPszTX1zAJXtDKz2js6m+q+k3MQ7DxW36eCs= Received: by 10.110.46.3 with SMTP id t3mr10730825tit.19.1225671465676; Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:17:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr ([211.53.35.84]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id b4sm14686941tic.2.2008.11.02.16.17.42 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Sun, 02 Nov 2008 16:17:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (localhost.cdnetworks.co.kr [127.0.0.1]) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5) with ESMTP id mA30FhoS094437 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:15:43 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Received: (from yongari@localhost) by michelle.cdnetworks.co.kr (8.13.5/8.13.5/Submit) id mA30FePd094436; Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:15:40 +0900 (KST) (envelope-from pyunyh@gmail.com) Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 09:15:40 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon To: Jeremy Chadwick Message-ID: <20081103001540.GA94302@cdnetworks.co.kr> References: <20081101234311.9bc42999.aluoor@gmail.com> <16517938@bs1.sp34.ru> <20081102074253.GA1822@rebelion.Sisis.de> <20081102135627.2ff984ff.aluoor@gmail.com> <20081102173321.GA97900@icarus.home.lan> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20081102173321.GA97900@icarus.home.lan> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: Boris Samorodov , Matthias Apitz , Sven Aluoor , freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD on Eeepc 1000h X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: pyunyh@gmail.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 03 Nov 2008 00:17:48 -0000 On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 09:33:21AM -0800, Jeremy Chadwick wrote: > On Sun, Nov 02, 2008 at 01:56:27PM +0100, Sven Aluoor wrote: > > On Sun, 2 Nov 2008 08:42:53 +0100 > > Matthias Apitz wrote: > > > El d?a Sunday, November 02, 2008 a las 02:48:13AM +0300, Boris > > > Samorodov escribi?: > > > > Seems that you may be interested at: > > > > http://docs.freebsd.org/cgi/getmsg.cgi?fetch=343551+0+current/freebsd-current > > > > Hi Boris > > > > This link reference to an empty document > > > > > Known issues and FreeBSD work for the eeePC series are described here: > > > http://wiki.freebsd.org/AsusEee > > > > > > HIH > > > > Hi Matthias > > > > Thanks for the wikipage. I quote from there: > > > > Atheros L1 FastEthernet > > This one is second generation of L1 controller which is supposed to be > > heavily modified by Atheros after acquiring Attansic. This controller > > uses different bits/meaning in register layouts and seems to use > > different descriptor formats. This is not supported by the age(4) > > driver. > > > > In clear text: at the moment there is no driver available? Is this > > correct? That's not true anymore. There *IS* a driver, ale(4). See below. > > This might be applicable: > > I recently send Yong-Hyeon PYUN an Asus P5Q SE motherboard, solely to > develop a driver for the Attansic L1 chip that's on the motherboard. > After a few weeks he returned to me a driver called ate(4), which > supports the Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 NICs. The description I > got, as well as the driver: > > "Ok, here is a working driver, ate(4), for Atheros AR8121/AR8113 > and AR8114. It passed minimal functional requirement of network > driver of FreeBSD but it still needs more test and cleanups. > I'm not sure you have hardwares to test ate(4) but if you have > it give it a try. Note it seems that the hardware, at least AR8121, > has checksum offload bug so I disabled Tx side checksum offload. > TSO seems to work though. > > The Tx performance is 920Mbps or higher but Rx performance > is 850~870 Mbps which is lower than Tx. It also requires a lot of > CPU cycles to push the hardware to limit but I think it comes from > hardware limitation not from ate(4) itself." > > There is absolutely no guarantee that this is the same exact NIC used on > the Asus Eee, but there's a chance. > One of FreeBSD developer also confirmed that ale(4) works on his Eeepc 1000H. :-) > This driver isn't publicly available yet, and I do not feel comfortable > sending it to people here without Yong-Hyeon's permission. I've CC'd > him so he can put it up on freebsd.org somewhere and let folks test it, > assuming it will/does work with the Asus Eee. > I've sent CFT to CURRENT ML and waiting for feedbacks from users. http://marc.info/?t=122533988800003&r=1&w=2 (For unknown reason archiving service of CURRENT ML does'nt seem to work. :-( ) I'm not subscribed to questions@ so please CC to me. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon