Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 01:38:20 -0700 From: Ryan Rogers <webmaster@doghouserepair.com> To: "b. f." <bf1783@googlemail.com> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: nfe problem on 8.0-BETA2 Message-ID: <4A66CFFC.30601@doghouserepair.com> In-Reply-To: <d873d5be0907212218nde4167bw8e4e9951659b3729@mail.gmail.com> References: <d873d5be0907212218nde4167bw8e4e9951659b3729@mail.gmail.com>
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b. f. wrote: >> Seeing that nfe apparently worked on June 1st, I headed to the FTP to see >> which snapshots were available. The earliest -CURRENT June snapshot was >> dated the 8th, so I grabbed that one. The nics didn't work at all. >> >> So, there's a small window where something changed which broke nfe. Looking >> at the SVN commit logs for if_nfe.c, nothing really fits in that window. To >> me, this looks like something about general network device handling changed >> which nfe nics can't cope with. I have no idea what that could be though, >> so I'm hoping that someone on this list would be able to point me in the >> right direction. >> >> Ryan > > Well, you guys picked a helluva week (June 1-8) in which to narrow > down problems. It would help if you gave the exact revisions of the > snapshots you are using. And if you are going to hunt this down, I > would recommend getting a local subversion repository of the sources, > so that you can selectively revert changes and then rebuild to test. > > I have a MCP61-based NIC using nfe, and I haven't had any problems. > Since you both have Marvell 88E1116-based chipsets, I'm going to guess > that one of yongari@'s changesets from June 2 was the source of your > problems: > > http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193289 > http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193291 > > If you revert these and still can't get your NICs to work, then I > think that probably the new ACPI import that began on June 5 with > r193529 may be the next likely suspect. > > Regards, > b. > > Aha! I updated my 7.2-RELEASE install to r193288, and everything worked fine. I then updated to r193289, and nfe broke! Now that I know what I'm looking for, I'll see what I can do to get it working in the morning. Thanks! Ryan
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