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Date:      Tue, 15 Jan 2013 10:47:38 +0400
From:      Ruslan Makhmatkhanov <cvs-src@yandex.ru>
To:        pyunyh@gmail.com
Cc:        Jeremie Le Hen <jlh@freebsd.org>, freebsd-net@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: if_vr(4) and DFE520-TX
Message-ID:  <50F4FB8A.6090100@yandex.ru>
In-Reply-To: <20130115064011.GA1434@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
References:  <50F110AB.1030107@yandex.ru> <50F14880.4090001@yandex.ru> <50F177E9.3040003@yandex.ru> <20130114061553.GA3531@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <50F3F172.5060903@yandex.ru> <20130115024430.GA3152@michelle.cdnetworks.com> <50F4F7E6.7070004@yandex.ru> <20130115064011.GA1434@michelle.cdnetworks.com>

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YongHyeon PYUN wrote on 15.01.2013 10:40:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2013 at 10:32:06AM +0400, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
>> YongHyeon PYUN wrote on 15.01.2013 06:44:
>>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:52:18PM +0400, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
>>>> YongHyeon PYUN wrote on 14.01.2013 10:15:
>>>>> On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:49:13PM +0400, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
>>>>>> Ok, I got some details. It's an DFE-520TX (/C1 or rev. C1). I crafted an
>>>>>> patch attached, but whenever kldloading the modified if_vr, I got this:
>>>>
>>>> [...]
>>>>
>>>>>> I also tried to apply VR_Q_NEEDALIGN quirk, but nothing is changed. Any
>>>>>> hints?
>>>>>
>>>>> I recall D-Link was one of notorious vendor which used to
>>>>> completely change its chip set in later revisions without notice. So
>>>>> I'm afraid the controller you have may not be a VIA manufactured
>>>>> one.
>>>>> Could you take a picture of the chip set of controller and let
>>>>> others see it? I guess it could be a RealTek 8139 or 8139C+.
>>>>
>>>> Here they are. Both front and back for the case (see no traces of
>>>> RealTek though):
>>>>
>>>> http://s2.postimage.org/9nvkrlpqx/IMAG1040.jpg
>>>> http://s2.postimage.org/4qi06hnrt/IMAG1041.jpg
>>>
>>> Thanks. Try attached patch and let me know how it works.
>>> If that patch does not work, try setting a loader tunable like the
>>> following.
>>> dev.rl.0.prefer_iomap=0
>>
>> Terrific! It's now attaching fine, but network over it doesn't seems
>> working (can't ping/access machine via this interface):
>
> Please use my patch. I think rl(4) is the right driver for your
> controller. Jeremie's patch forces re(4) to attach.

To be honest, your and Jeremie patches are identical. Your patch is 
against if_re/if_rlreg.h too :)

>> re0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu
>> 1500
>> options=8209b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM,WOL_MAGIC,LINKSTATE>
>> 	ether 90:94:e4:82:d5:e6
>> 	inet 192.168.0.208 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.0.255
>> 	inet6 fe80::9294:e4ff:fe82:d5e6%re0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x5
>> 	nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>> 	media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
>> 	status: active
>>
>> re0@pci0:4:1:0:	class=0x020000 card=0x11031186 chip=0x42001186
>> rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>>      vendor     = 'D-Link System Inc'
>>      class      = network
>>      subclass   = ethernet
>>
>> I also tried to add dev.rl.0.prefer_iomap=0 to /boot/loader.conf with no
>> difference. I'll try to experiment with this later this day when there
>> will be no active users on this machine, then let you know the results.
>
> It's not a valid option when you use re(4).
>
>> Thank you!

Yes, it was unmindful copy/paste, sorry.

-- 
Regards,
Ruslan

Tinderboxing kills... the drives.



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