From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Apr 1 08:02:49 2008 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CF2851065670 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stuart@stuartfraser.net) Received: from smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk (smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk [195.188.213.7]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 73F7F8FC21 for ; Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:02:49 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from stuart@stuartfraser.net) Received: from [172.23.170.136] (helo=anti-virus01-07) by smtp-out4.blueyonder.co.uk with smtp (Exim 4.52) id 1JgagX-000735-5L for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:13:33 +0100 Received: from [82.41.24.37] (helo=slayer.stuartfraser.net) by asmtp-out6.blueyonder.co.uk with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1JgagW-00022U-Pk for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:13:32 +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 1JgalN-0009XN-IC for freebsd-current@freebsd.org; Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:18:33 +0100 From: "Stuart Fraser" To: Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 08:13:19 +0100 Message-ID: <0fc501c893c7$dfbf99b0$9f3ecd10$@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: AciTJDT4fxg8kObFS9aEh3UZxDTnFQAoyjog Content-Language: en-gb Subject: vge(4) driver not working at 1G speeds X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 01 Apr 2008 08:02:49 -0000 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? Rgds S. _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"