Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 20:15:38 +0200 From: Andre Boehm <andre@abtime.de> To: Shigeaki Tagashira <shigeaki@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> Cc: freebsd-amd64@freebsd.org Subject: Re: FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter Message-ID: <4460DC4A.7070106@abtime.de> In-Reply-To: <44506B8B.4090605@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp> References: <44506B8B.4090605@se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp>
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Hello, I tried if_nfe on my ASUS A8N-E with nForce4 chipset. FreeBSD-6.1-RELEASE/amd64, because of problems with if_nve. At first, everything seems to look fine from looking at dmesg and ifconfig, but then no traffic seems to come in or goes out. When I switched back by unloading if_nfe and loading if_nve, starting /etc/netstart, I received an email notice by arpwatch (on my office router) that the MAC address of my NIC had changed, showing the digits in reverse order. When again switching the kernel module, ifconfig shows sometimes the old MAC address, sometimes reversed. With both modules, nfe and nve, the MAC adress gets changed, or maybe nve keeps the changed address and nfe changes its back again and so on. # grep Ethernet\ address /var/log/all.log May 9 15:21:50 w00t kernel: nve0: Ethernet address: 00:15:XX:YY:d4:0b May 9 18:50:58 w00t kernel: nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:15:XX:YY:d4:0b May 9 19:04:50 w00t kernel: nve0: Ethernet address: 0b:d4:YY:XX:15:00 May 9 19:42:12 w00t kernel: nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:15:XX:YY:d4:0b May 9 19:44:33 w00t kernel: nfe0: Ethernet address: 0b:d4:YY:XX:15:00 May 9 19:49:34 w00t kernel: nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:15:XX:YY:d4:0b May 9 19:50:25 w00t kernel: nve0: Ethernet address: 0b:d4:YY:XX:15:00 May 9 19:51:52 w00t kernel: nve0: Ethernet address: 00:15:XX:YY:d4:0b (I inserted XX and YY for my privacy.) I didn't apply a PHY patch, here's the rest: ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus0 ukphy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xb000-0xb007 mem 0xd8000000-0xd8000fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0 nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xb000-0xb007 mem 0xd8000000-0xd8000fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0 Shigeaki Tagashira schrieb: > I am providing a FreeBSD device driver of NVIDIA nForce network adapter. > It is a native device driver and is based on the OpenBSD nfe driver. > The latest driver was tested on FreeBSD 6.1-RC/amd64 and seems to work stably > on my machine (ASUS A8N-SLI Premium). > > It can be downloaded at the following URL. > http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html > > Best regards > --- > S. Tagashira
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