From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue May 18 20:55:19 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 58CEA16A4CE for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 20:55:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz [66.92.171.106]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0935343D39 for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 20:55:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from culverk@sweetdreamsracing.biz) Received: by mailhub.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Postfix, from userid 80) id 87CC2109; Tue, 18 May 2004 23:54:48 -0400 (EDT) Received: from hachigo (hachigo [66.92.171.91]) by www.sweetdreamsracing.biz (Horde) with HTTP for ; Tue, 18 May 2004 23:54:48 -0400 Message-ID: <20040518235448.17tccosscoows4gg@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> Date: Tue, 18 May 2004 23:54:48 -0400 From: Kenneth Culver To: Jung-uk Kim References: <20040518142202.4cc4k4kw4c804g48@www.sweetdreamsracing.biz> <200405181921.39950.jkim@niksun.com> In-Reply-To: <200405181921.39950.jkim@niksun.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; format="flowed" Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit User-Agent: Internet Messaging Program (IMP) 4.0-cvs cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: more on if_sk problem X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 May 2004 03:55:19 -0000 Quoting Jung-uk Kim : > 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