From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Aug 19 10:27:35 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org 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 397D116A41F; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:27:35 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de) Received: from mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE [134.93.178.129]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C1DBB43D48; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:27:34 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from ohartman@mail.uni-mainz.de) Received: from [213.6.69.6] (A4506.a.pppool.de [213.6.69.6]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by mailgate1.zdv.Uni-Mainz.DE (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6E2CF3000741; Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:27:31 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <4305B410.2030207@mail.uni-mainz.de> Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 12:27:28 +0200 From: "O. Hartmann" Organization: Institut =?ISO-8859-1?Q?f=FCr_Geophysik?= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.6 (X11/20050724) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= References: <20050818200208.26042.qmail@web50302.mail.yahoo.com> <4304F83E.6090400@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <4304F83E.6090400@t-hosting.hu> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at uni-mainz.de X-Mailman-Approved-At: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 11:50:56 +0000 Cc: alan bryan , freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nve0 nvidia onboard ethernet dies daily on 6.0 beta1 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: Fri, 19 Aug 2005 10:27:35 -0000 Kövesdán Gábor wrote: > alan bryan wrote: > >> --- Kövesdán Gábor >> wrote: >> >> >>> The nve driver has a lot of problems. You >>> experienced just device timeouts, but other people - including me - >>> experiences system crashes. As for me, I've had two kind of kernel >>> panics, and >>> device timeouts too. >>> >>> Cheers, >>> >>> Gabor Kovesdan >>> >> >> >> Do you (or does anyone else here) have any >> recommendations then on a good PCI express (no plain >> PCI slots) ethernet card that doesn't use the nve >> driver? Maybe an Intel card? Gigabit speeds >> preferably. I could then use that until the nve >> driver gets fixed (Is somebody even working on fixing >> it?). >> >> Thanks, >> Alan >> >> >> > No, unfortunately I don't know about a good alternative. I don't think > anybody is > working on it now. Maxime Henrion and Quinton Dolan committed changes > to that driver, > but unfortunately it didn't make things better. > > Cheers, > > Gábor Kövesdán > Hello. I'm also interested in fixing the omnipresent nve-problems, but reading the manpages for nve(4) reveals the bad circumstance that this driver seems to be 'wrapped' around a Linux binary object. Nvidia obviously isn't willing to offer documentation about the chip's internals so it will be hard to develop an open source driver for this NIC. That sounds to me to get happy with a 'ever GIANT locked' nve NIC using FreeBSD 6.X Oliver