From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 27 12:09:03 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 27AA716A41F for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:09:03 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: from elvis.mu.org (elvis.mu.org [192.203.228.196]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id EF8D143D46 for ; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 12:09:02 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from mux@freebsd.org) Received: by elvis.mu.org (Postfix, from userid 1920) id E57D15CBAA; Wed, 27 Jul 2005 05:09:02 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:09:02 +0200 From: Maxime Henrion To: K??vesd??n G??bor Message-ID: <20050727120902.GR14567@elvis.mu.org> References: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua> <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, yerenkow@uct.ua 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 12:09:03 -0000 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 >