From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 11:28:33 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 53F9016A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:28:33 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu (server.t-hosting.hu [217.20.133.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D356843D5E for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:28:32 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu) Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF3189979DF; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:28:31 +0200 (CEST) Received: from server.t-hosting.hu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (server.t-hosting.hu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id 11915-01; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:28:28 +0200 (CEST) Received: from [80.98.156.20] (catv-50629c14.catv.broadband.hu [80.98.156.20]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by server.t-hosting.hu (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA0B7997746; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:28:27 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu> Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:28:06 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?S8O2dmVzZMOhbiBHw6Fib3I=?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (Windows/20050716) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: yerenkow@uct.ua References: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua> In-Reply-To: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at t-hosting.hu Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVE X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 11:28:33 -0000 yerenkow@uct.ua wrote: >Hello list users. > >I have bougth motherboard Epox 8kda3J, which has NV ethernet adapter MCP7. >My system was FreeBSD 5.4 and i found NV MCP Driver for FreeBSD here: >http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/ >Ok, I got it, install and kldloaded; then ifconfig tells me that my >ethernet card see cable, but I started to receive these messages: >device nv0 timeout(5), with ascending numbers; > >Ok, I get Freebsd 6.0-BETA1, where driver pre-built in kernel. >The different were only interface name, whic is nve0, but also shows >timeouts. > >This was tested with cross cable between two pcs, and with normal cable >pc-switch. >I tried to turn on debugging nve driver, but then system just hangs. > >Can anyone comment? > > > Hi, I have the same network interface on Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. That nve driver in the FreeBSD6.0-BETA1 is very poor. Sometimes it causes a kernel panic, sometimes it hangs with device timeouts. I've sent a PR about that kernel panic with trace included but nobody has taken care of that yet. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán