Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 01:28:06 +0200 From: =?UTF-8?B?S8O2dmVzZMOhbiBHw6Fib3I=?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: yerenkow@uct.ua Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org Subject: Re: NVE Message-ID: <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua> References: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua>
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yerenkow@uct.ua wrote: >Hello list users. > >I have bougth motherboard Epox 8kda3J, which has NV ethernet adapter MCP7. >My system was FreeBSD 5.4 and i found NV MCP Driver for FreeBSD here: >http://www.onthenet.com.au/~q/nvnet/ >Ok, I got it, install and kldloaded; then ifconfig tells me that my >ethernet card see cable, but I started to receive these messages: >device nv0 timeout(5), with ascending numbers; > >Ok, I get Freebsd 6.0-BETA1, where driver pre-built in kernel. >The different were only interface name, whic is nve0, but also shows >timeouts. > >This was tested with cross cable between two pcs, and with normal cable >pc-switch. >I tried to turn on debugging nve driver, but then system just hangs. > >Can anyone comment? > > > Hi, I have the same network interface on Asus A8N-SLI Deluxe. That nve driver in the FreeBSD6.0-BETA1 is very poor. Sometimes it causes a kernel panic, sometimes it hangs with device timeouts. I've sent a PR about that kernel panic with trace included but nobody has taken care of that yet. Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán
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