From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sun Jan 25 13:44:24 2009 Return-Path: Delivered-To: current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4B5EA1065809 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:44:24 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: from web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com (web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com [69.147.97.117]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id D9A498FC21 for ; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:44:23 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from barney_cordoba@yahoo.com) Received: (qmail 46400 invoked by uid 60001); 25 Jan 2009 13:44:23 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=yahoo.com; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:Cc:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=R77ut16LYjRPhHgHTa5CsPBrGOL8CO1sapszUMK0AUp2OBAkFa/5RaFzUJ9ph1s15EM3tqmoXQUuE/Cle4Y/wgFxAOpkajlS6qDQ62NChUvxj5FyxoVVg/n25EkS5jsUnutVMT//K7pGbUj5UpJek9RaT74rdwEcGXIhPAvFnNI=; X-YMail-OSG: 2W.aTZgVM1mO7QyF4l7hni1bwt_bF_xXxfCxwMNgsjOuy.ON.9y6_JQu28GqnUPD5Wb9.JaFi2O2q6AZHXdJHw..A3qEMjzhthgIB5BA4Y.QpfrQeRrg9SIp3tRbm9rMy.oaqzTGih9mLnEfKns43sfCb.o- Received: from [98.242.222.229] by web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com via HTTP; Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:44:23 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 05:44:23 -0800 (PST) From: Barney Cordoba To: current@freebsd.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Message-ID: <471411.45398.qm@web63902.mail.re1.yahoo.com> Cc: jfvogel@gmail.com Subject: Problems with ixgbe X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list Reply-To: barney_cordoba@yahoo.com List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 13:44:24 -0000 I'm trying to fire up a couple of 10g cards (2 different cards with 82598 NICs) hooked up back to back, and I'm having nothing but problems. I haven't gotten the latest version 1.5.6 driver to work under any circumstances. I've gotten the 1.2.16 driver that came in 7.0-RELEASE to work once on fresh boots on each machine, but then when rebooting one of the machines nothing could be done to get them to talk again. I did do quite a bit of testing so it doesn't seem that the cards are faulty. Its just wholly unreliable. It seems that they just don't transmit the frames properly. netstat -i shows outgoing packets but internal hw.ix.0.stats show none transmitted when enabled. I've tried disabling MSI-X, using just 1 queue, all with the same result. I don't have a 7.1 or 8 machine to test with at this location, so I don't know if there is something in 7.0-RELEASE that just won't work with these cards. I don't want to beat my head too badly, or spend time debugging if its just not going to work. First, should 1.5.6 work in 7.0? The README indicates it should. It makes little sense debugging an old driver. Barney