Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:07:34 +0300 From: Jan Mikael Melen <jan@melen.org> To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Cc: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> Subject: Re: VIA VT6103 support (VIA EPIA PD) Message-ID: <200509271107.37830.jan@melen.org> In-Reply-To: <200509251353.j8PDr5XE005907@lurza.secnetix.de> References: <200509251353.j8PDr5XE005907@lurza.secnetix.de>
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Hi,
I have a PD board running FreeBSD 6 and here something that I have noticed. I
have had the PD board only for few months and have not had really time stress
test it but it works pretty fine as wireless-AP and firewall for rest of my
home network.
Few weird things that I have noticed are that from the network device you
can't get the full 100Mbit/s out of the ethernet ports. My friend has the
EPIA PD-6000 with NetBSD and he has experienced the same problem that you can
get only roughly 20 Mbit/s through the interfaces. He has also EPIA SP-8000
where he gets the whole 100Mbit/s through the interface.
Other weird thing is that I get a kernel panic after final sync when halting
system, I've investigated that this propably doesn't have anything to do with
the VIA EPIA motherboard and I think the problem has something do either with
bridging or the atheros wireless driver.
Regards,
Jan
On Sunday 25 September 2005 16:53, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Mark J. Sommer <msommer@argotsoft.com> wrote:
> > Friend found a post regarding this. Says there is an update to the BIOS
> > too. Please check out:
> >
> > http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=60131
>
> Thanks, I've read through the complete thread (more than
> 300 messages). It seems that the lock-ups people have been
> experiencing were caused by several issues, most of which
> are only Linux-specific (bugs in the longhaul driver and
> in the itvt driver, and problems caused by using optimized
> 686-code). I don't expect any of those problems to appear
> under FreeBSD. It's also worth noting that there are _no_
> FreeBSD PRs at all which mention such problems with EPIA
> boards. The only problem I've been readong about was the
> VT6102/6103 issue, and that's why I wrote the initial
> message in this thread.
>
> (BTW, some people also reported that their problems were
> caused by improperly grounded hardware.)
>
> > If anyone has this working properly with FreeBSD, I'd appreciate
> > knowing. I hear the Ethernet on these are not great performers.
>
> I'll report as soon as I got my PD board and performed some
> testing.
>
> Best regards
> Oliver
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