From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Mar 31 16:21:20 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07C89106566B for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:21:20 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stuart@stuartfraser.net) Received: from smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.6]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C96988FC14 for ; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:21:19 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stuart@stuartfraser.net) Received: from [172.23.170.147] (helo=anti-virus03-10) by smtp-out3.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1JgIOn-0008Ql-Ju for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:42:01 +0100 Received: from [82.41.24.37] (helo=slayer.stuartfraser.net) by asmtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1JgIOn-0005Ii-3Z for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:42:01 +0100 Received: from nyx.stuartfraser.net ([192.168.51.34] helo=nyx) by slayer.stuartfraser.net with esmtp (Exim 4.69 (FreeBSD)) (envelope-from ) id 1JgITe-0008aV-4U for freebsd-questions@freebsd.org; Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:47:02 +0100 From: "Stuart Fraser" To: Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 12:41:51 +0100 Message-ID: <002801c89324$39191530$ab4b3f90$@net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft Office Outlook 12.0 thread-index: AciTJDT4fxg8kObFS9aEh3UZxDTnFQ== Content-Language: en-gb Subject: vge(4) driver not working at 1G speeds X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 31 Mar 2008 16:21:20 -0000 Hi, I'm trying to a Via Velocity Gigabit Networking driver vge(4) to work at 1000baseTX on a Via EPIA SN18000 Motherboard. It will always Auto negotiation backoff to 100MB Full duplex, which works perfectly. 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. 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 also as an external module loaded through 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. Rgds S.