Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:54:48 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver <culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz> To: Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more on if_sk problem Message-ID: <20040518235448.17tccosscoows4gg@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> In-Reply-To: <200405181921.39950.jkim@niksun.com> References: <20040518142202.4cc4k4kw4c804g48@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <200405181921.39950.jkim@niksun.com>
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Quoting Jung-uk Kim <jkim@niksun.com>: > On Tuesday 18 May 2004 02:22 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote: >> I have done some more twiddling around with the problem I'm having >> with the if_sk driver with a built-in 3com 940 Gig-e adapter. >> >> Basically the problem is that dhclient times out and I end up with >> an address of 0.0.0.0 when I boot the machine. I've found that if I >> remove IFF_MULTICAST from line 1473 of that driver, recompile the >> kernel, and reboot, dhcp suddenly works right. >> >> Another thing I noticed is that every time an IP is added to the >> interface with multicast enabled, the link goes down, and typing a >> subsequent ifconfig shows "No carrier" for a few seconds. I don't >> see this behavior on any other ethernet card (I have several fxp, >> xl, and de type 10/100 cards). So basically I think there's some >> kind of problem with the sk_setmulti() function in the sk driver. >> Either that or the 3com 940 card is just wonky. > > Well, Marvell Yukon controller support is not really complete. There > are missiong pieces. I haven't found time to fix it yet. :-( If you > are running FreeBSD/i386, try vendor driver, which is almost > complete: It's still broken anyway with multicast turned off :-(... It just happened to work the 2 times I tried it ... but then stopped working. > http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/freebsd52.htm > > JK > >> Anyway, this is what I've found, so hopefully someone can do >> something with this info. >> Ken
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