From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jul 22 08:40:25 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 773C2106564A for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:25 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from webmaster@doghouserepair.com) Received: from smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com (smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com [68.142.198.212]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 3C99F8FC18 for ; Wed, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from webmaster@doghouserepair.com) Received: (qmail 78276 invoked from network); 22 Jul 2009 08:40:24 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO ?10.10.10.3?) (webmaster@69.108.138.13 with plain) by smtp113.sbc.mail.mud.yahoo.com with SMTP; 22 Jul 2009 08:40:24 -0000 X-YMail-OSG: Da4jFZYVM1nqwUCW1k0JZXizkrYoMpuSU4Cv8MH0afJMVAeEL3SQl2oIkr5bdVF007FeKAUpbFV80UfyiKl4del1t0jESr0DOybYUvQt_3uYH90essT1bscDnEaz1XdVE5PtOpuHXSPKlmWPf1nSqrTOVIKGJlXXlsQo_OKST9Jb7QQvwVDBqag917OzlrX7DtzS6G6dCdUJiRgaO7UgJ7sEuZD8wK5F2TsjL2tsitLN6A9QmkFDQ3jaHLGkH9sBsFxVROaKeLK3f96wUj4VuadotNn0lU3ofjSIQYRp.jwJ4ZUMSkGtrnm8LqzBSIAP6EHoWfE5pZ.tIpthgsO4BNs- X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 Message-ID: <4A66CFFC.30601@doghouserepair.com> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:38:20 -0700 From: Ryan Rogers User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.22 (X11/20090608) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "b. f." References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfe problem on 8.0-BETA2 X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 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, 22 Jul 2009 08:40:25 -0000 b. f. wrote: >> Seeing that nfe apparently worked on June 1st, I headed to the FTP to see >> which snapshots were available. The earliest -CURRENT June snapshot was >> dated the 8th, so I grabbed that one. The nics didn't work at all. >> >> So, there's a small window where something changed which broke nfe. Looking >> at the SVN commit logs for if_nfe.c, nothing really fits in that window. To >> me, this looks like something about general network device handling changed >> which nfe nics can't cope with. I have no idea what that could be though, >> so I'm hoping that someone on this list would be able to point me in the >> right direction. >> >> Ryan > > Well, you guys picked a helluva week (June 1-8) in which to narrow > down problems. It would help if you gave the exact revisions of the > snapshots you are using. And if you are going to hunt this down, I > would recommend getting a local subversion repository of the sources, > so that you can selectively revert changes and then rebuild to test. > > I have a MCP61-based NIC using nfe, and I haven't had any problems. > Since you both have Marvell 88E1116-based chipsets, I'm going to guess > that one of yongari@'s changesets from June 2 was the source of your > problems: > > http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193289 > http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193291 > > If you revert these and still can't get your NICs to work, then I > think that probably the new ACPI import that began on June 5 with > r193529 may be the next likely suspect. > > Regards, > b. > > Aha! I updated my 7.2-RELEASE install to r193288, and everything worked fine. I then updated to r193289, and nfe broke! Now that I know what I'm looking for, I'll see what I can do to get it working in the morning. Thanks! Ryan