Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2007 10:50:27 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Nikolay Mirin <nik@optim.com.ru> Cc: Robert Slawson <robert.slawson@charter.net>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Marvel Yukon using the sk driver Message-ID: <20070821015027.GC58574@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <46C9D817.1070704@optim.com.ru> References: <2306ABA6-49A6-412E-81CD-CBABAE885EB2@charter.net> <46C9D817.1070704@optim.com.ru>
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On Mon, Aug 20, 2007 at 01:06:15PM -0500, Nikolay Mirin wrote: > Hi, what I can tell. > I had a terrible problem with this card (PCI-E version) exactly one week > ago. Both drivers msk from the system and myk from the vendor show > similar behavior. > On high loads, like 2-3 users from Samba domain pulling their profiles > at the same time, the card just chokes. No ping, and > "buffer overflow message". > I mean I had to bring the interface down and up again. Absolutely > disgusting. Show me verbosed boot dmesg and the output of "pciconf -lcv". Did you see watchdog timeout messages on your console? > No tweak helps. > > I mean, we tested it over the weekend and it was fine, till folks come > there on Monday and start massively using the server. > > We downgraded the hardware and put good old 3Com509 PCI or whatever > works with xl driver. > > > Robert Slawson said the following on 20.08.2007 10:13: > >Greetings, > > > >I have a marvel yukon pci gigabit ethernet card. For some reason, > >after a period of time it will not transmit unless I make it transmit > >by pinging via the console. It is very annoying as I cannot ssh into > >the machine until I "wake up" the card by telling it to ping something. > > > >I am using 6.2 stable and just yesterday rebuilt the kernel and world > >hoping this would fix the problem. But nothing seems to help. > > > >I think the card needs to use the msk driver , which is installed, but > >the card keeps using the sk driver. Is there a way to have freebsd re > >identify the card correctly and use the proper driver? > > > >Thanks in advance, > >Bob -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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