From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Dec 20 23:14:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 264BF37B401 for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:14:45 -0800 (PST) Received: from cecov.masternet.it (cecov.masternet.it [194.184.65.7]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3BF8D43EDE for ; Fri, 20 Dec 2002 23:14:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Received: from usul.scotty.masternet.it (freebsd.giovannelli.com [194.184.65.139]) by cecov.masternet.it (8.12.6/8.12.6) with ESMTP id gBL7EiI0092096; Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:14:45 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from gmarco@scotty.masternet.it) Message-Id: <5.2.0.9.2.20021221074556.02af7ea8@194.184.65.7> X-Sender: gmarco@194.184.65.7 (Unverified) X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.2.0.9 Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 08:14:44 +0100 To: stable@freebsd.org From: Gianmarco Giovannelli Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Cc: Luigi Rizzo In-Reply-To: <3DF7F832.4060303@anarcat.ath.cx> References: <02Dec12.111628nzdt.119047@homer.fire.org.nz> <006601c29cab$ec3a9c80$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> <20021205234945.GA70487@tassie.net.au> <02Dec6.140248nzdt.119052@homer.fire.org.nz> <20021211164627.G28042@staff.msen.com> <02Dec12.111628nzdt.119047@homer.fire.org.nz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG At 11/12/2002, you wrote: >Andrew Thompson wrote: > >>>Does the on-board Etherernet work with FreeBSD? >>> >>The onboard ethernet also works fine (vr0), but I am sceptical about its >>reliability/performance. >Just a personal experience: I had a lot of problems delivering >high-bandwidth data through a vr-driven card, some time ago. The card >would just freeze and a ifconfig down/up was necessary to bring back >proper functionality. > >I think, however, that patches have been applied to -stable and 4.7 should >effectively be immune to this problem. > >But this doesn't remove the doubts I too have about this card chipset. I have installed and running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE on a c3 800. The vr driver seems to works quite well as the PPPoE media (even at 100mb) vr0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 ether 00:40:63:c1:1c:85 media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active rl0: flags=8843 mtu 1500 inet 10.254.254.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.254.254.255 ether 00:48:54:1a:42:df media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX ) status: active lo0: flags=8049 mtu 16384 inet 127.0.0.1 netmask 0xff000000 tun0: flags=8051 mtu 1492 Opened by PID 53 Obviusly there is not so much data on it being connected to the adsl router (zyxel 645 acting like a bridge). The system is quite fast (a complete make world took about 1.20 hour) even if it is obviusly slower that other cpu of its class (see also: http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco/showdocs.php?nomefile=testi/worldstone.html&tipofile=html or if your browser has problem : http://www.gufi.org/~gmarco/testi/worldstone.html) Other test reported (as suggested in another thread): /usr/bin/time sort /usr/share/dict/words > /dev/null C3 800 1.76 real 1.61 user 0.14 sys Amd 1900+ 0.59 real 0.45 user 0.03 sys Pentium133 5.30 real 4.34 user 0.53 sys Duron 800 1.28 real 1.01 user 0.06 sys PIII 866 1.25 real 0.78 user 0.06 sys PIII 450 1.90 real 1.44 user 0.15 sys PIII 500 1.73 real 1.33 user 0.13 sys and so on... Btw the system works quite well even if I don't use audio or usb (disabled both by bios): Timecounter "TSC" frequency 800031002 Hz CPU: VIA C3 Samuel 2 (800.03-MHz 686-class CPU) Origin = "CentaurHauls" Id = 0x678 Stepping = 8 Features=0x803035 real memory = 266272768 (260032K bytes) avail memory = 256557056 (250544K bytes) Preloaded elf kernel "kernel" at 0xc028a000. Using $PIR table, 5 entries at 0xc00fdc70 npx0: on motherboard npx0: INT 16 interface pcib0: on motherboard pci0: on pcib0 pcib1: at device 1.0 on pci0 pci1: on pcib1 pci1: at 0.0 irq 10 isab0: at device 17.0 on pci0 isa0: on isab0 atapci0: port 0xd000-0xd00f at device 17.1 on pci0 ata0: at 0x1f0 irq 14 on atapci0 ata1: at 0x170 irq 15 on atapci0 pci0: at 17.2 irq 12 pci0: at 17.3 irq 12 chip1: at device 17.4 on pci0 vr0: port 0xdc00-0xdcff mem 0xe3000000-0xe30000ff irq 10 at device 18.0 on pci0 vr0: Ethernet address: 00:40:63:c1:1c:85 miibus0: on vr0 ukphy0: on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto rl0: port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xe3001000-0xe30010ff irq 11 at device 20.0 on pci0 rl0: Ethernet address: 00:48:54:1a:42:df miibus1: on rl0 rlphy0: on miibus1 rlphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, auto orm0: