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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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