Date: Wed, 2 Apr 2008 09:27:29 +0900 From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com> To: Stuart Fraser <stuart@stuartfraser.net> Cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vge(4) driver not working at 1G speeds Message-ID: <20080402002729.GA18494@cdnetworks.co.kr> In-Reply-To: <0fc501c893c7$dfbf99b0$9f3ecd10$@net> References: <0fc501c893c7$dfbf99b0$9f3ecd10$@net>
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On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:13:19AM +0100, Stuart Fraser wrote: > Hi, > I'm trying to get a Via Velocity Gigabit Networking driver vge(4) to work at > 1000baseTX on a Via EPIA SN18000 Motherboard. > > It will always Auto negotiation and back-off to 100MB Full duplex, which > works > Perfectly (so far). When I try to manually force the card 1000baseTX the > interface > status reports 'no carrier' and I can get not connectivity. I have tried > Ubuntu live disk and it works seamlessly to 1GB, so I'm sure the > cabling/switch etc is fine and the issue is with the driver. > > So I have tried 1000baseTX full and half duplex. I have tried to disable the > hardware handoff using the mediaopt commands -rxcsum and -txcsum. Further I > have tried to use the link0 operation as described in the man page but I > get: > > nas# ifconfig vge0 mediaopt link0 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured > > Further I have tried Release 7.0 and Stable 7 with the vge driver compiled > In to the kernel also as an external module loaded through boot/loader.conf > and lastly waiting until a full boot has completed and manually loading the > if_vge module. > > The only thing I can see is that the chipset is actually a VT6130 and > perhaps the driver needs 'tweaked' or there is some sysctl somewhere to poke > it into life. As I say it works fine in 100MB mode and I can use 100M for a > while but I'm planning on using this as a NAS so 1G would be preferred. > > Any help, suggestions, thoughts would be appreciated. Anyone got it working > or tried? > Should I report it as a bug? > Would you show me verbosed boot message? Old VIA VT6120/VT6122 controllers used to ciphy(4) but newer PCIe Velocity gigabit controllers, VT6130/VT6132, might use other variants of the PHY. -- Regards, Pyun YongHyeon
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