Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:09:02 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> To: K??vesd??n G??bor <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, yerenkow@uct.ua Subject: Re: NVE Message-ID: <20050727120902.GR14567@elvis.mu.org> In-Reply-To: <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu> References: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua> <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu>
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K??vesd??n G??bor wrote: > 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. I have committed a fix to the nve(4) driver very recently in HEAD. I don't think it could fix the device timeout issues, however, it might help with the panics you were getting. If you could give this fix a try, I'd be grateful. Cheers, Maxime >
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