Date: Thu, 8 Feb 2007 03:10:33 GMT From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net> To: freebsd-amd64@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: amd64/108861: [nve] nve(4) driver on FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 does not work at 1Gbps with nForce4 NIC Message-ID: <200702080310.l183AXdg031710@freefall.freebsd.org>
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From: Lawrence Stewart <lstewart@room52.net>
To: Angelo Turetta <aturetta+bsd@bestunion.it>
Cc: bug-followup@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: amd64/108861: [nve] nve(4) driver on FreeBSD 6.2 AMD64 does
not work at 1Gbps with nForce4 NIC
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 13:56:21 +1100
Hi Angelo,
Thanks very much for the reply.
Angelo Turetta wrote:
> Could you please test the alternative driver mentioned at
>
> http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
>
> It's already been commited to -current, and I'd certainly hope it will be
> MFC to 6-STABLE soon.
>
> Angelo Turetta
>
The new driver appears to be working perfectly. I'm running it through
some basic stress tests now, but everything so far is all good. It can
sync at both 100baseTX and 1000baseTX. When in 100baseTX mode, I can get
11.1 Mb/sec over scp. When in 1000baseTX I can get 24 MB/sec over scp.
This was only transferring from a low spec desktop machine, so I think
the machine's disk drive was the bottleneck, not the NIC.
For the benefit of anyone else that comes across this thread and wants
to know how to get the new driver working, here are the steps I followed
(lines beginning with a hyphen "-" are comments, not actual shell commands):
cd /root
fetch http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/nfe-20070106.tar.gz
- You may need a different patch to the one below depending on the
motherboard you have... this patch is the right one for my Asus A8N-E,
but all the details are on the patch website
http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
fetch
http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/e1000phy.20061219.fbsd62.patch
tar -xzvf nfe-20070106.tar.gz
cp -r nfe-20070106 /usr/src/sys/dev/nfe
cp e1000phy.20061219.fbsd62.patch /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/
cd /usr/src/sys/dev/mii/
patch < e1000phy.20061219.fbsd62.patch
cd /usr/src/sys/amd64/conf/
- Not sure that you need to do the next step, but I thought it would be
safer to remove the nve(4) driver from the kernel so it didn't get
confused... you can still kldload it later if needed
edit GENERIC
- Comment out the line "device nve # nVidia nForce
MCP on-board Ethernet Networking"
rm -rf ../compile/GENERIC
config GENERIC
cd ../compile/GENERIC
make cleandepend && make depend && make && make install
cd /usr/src/sys/dev/nfe
make
make install
shutdown -r now
- You should now have if_nve.ko in /boot/kernel/ and you can kldload it
using "kldload if_nfe" or load it at startup by sticking
if_nfe_load="YES" in /boot/loader.conf.
- Good times from here on in!
Thanks again for the help.
Regards,
Lawrence Stewart
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