From owner-freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Sep 27 08:08:07 2005 Return-Path: X-Original-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Delivered-To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 43A0316A41F for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:08:07 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan@melen.org) Received: from foxgw.melen.org (Savi-Mel.dna.fi [83.143.60.138]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5BA7743D49 for ; Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:08:05 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from jan@melen.org) Received: from [2001:5c0:8706:2:208:74ff:fee4:decb] ([IPv6:2001:5c0:8706:2:208:74ff:fee4:decb]) (authenticated bits=0) by foxgw.melen.org (8.13.4/8.13.4) with ESMTP id j8R87hfh047908 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5 bits=128 verify=NO); Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:07:58 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from jan@melen.org) From: Jan Mikael Melen To: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 11:07:34 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.8 References: <200509251353.j8PDr5XE005907@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <200509251353.j8PDr5XE005907@lurza.secnetix.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-6" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200509271107.37830.jan@melen.org> X-Virus-Scanned: ClamAV version 0.86.2, clamav-milter version 0.86 on foxgw.melen.org X-Virus-Status: Clean Cc: Oliver Fromme Subject: Re: VIA VT6103 support (VIA EPIA PD) X-BeenThere: freebsd-net@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Networking and TCP/IP with FreeBSD List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 08:08:07 -0000 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 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