Date: Wed, 8 Aug 2007 19:12:34 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG, dan@danneh.org Subject: Re: nfe(4) issues Message-ID: <200708081712.l78HCY3X056050@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <3946.81.149.89.84.1186589227.squirrel@www.danneh.org>
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dan@danneh.org wrote: > I might be covering old ground here, and I realise that this is resolved > in fbsd7, however I'm after an urgent fix, as I'm unable to wait for fbsd7 > to become a release. > I have a rack server, with an nvidia nforce pro 3600 chipset, and the nic > cards use the mcp55 marvell 88e1121 chipset (dual gigabit lan). the nve > that's shipped with 6.2 doesn't recognise it, and have been following > instructions here at > http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki//software/freebsd-nfe.html to > attempt to get the nfe driver working on fbsd6.2. It's probably _much_ easier to add the PCI ID of your MCP55 to the stock nve(4) driver on your FreeBSD 6 machine. It works -- that's exactly what I did in a similar case, but only for the purpose of getting network access so I could cvsup to 7-current. The machine is now happily running 7- current with the new nfe(4) driver. Basically, you simply copy the device ID from the output of "pciconf -lv" and insert it in if_nve.c and if_nvereg.h (located in /sys/dev/nve). I think there's even a PR about it. However, I recommend you update to 7-current anyway. It is already in code freeze for several weeks (in preparation for the release), and it has been stable for me so far. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "I started using PostgreSQL around a month ago, and the feeling is similar to the switch from Linux to FreeBSD in '96 -- 'wow!'." -- Oddbjorn Steffensen
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