Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 03:04:26 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?K=F6vesd=E1n_G=E1bor?= <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu> To: Maxime Henrion <mux@FreeBSD.org> Cc: freebsd-net@freebsd.org, yerenkow@uct.ua Subject: Re: NVE Message-ID: <42E82F1A.3040704@t-hosting.hu> In-Reply-To: <20050727120902.GR14567@elvis.mu.org> References: <1273.193.201.61.166.1122452509.squirrel@mail.uct.ua> <42E81886.70907@t-hosting.hu> <20050727120902.GR14567@elvis.mu.org>
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Maxime Henrion wrote: >K??vesd??n G??bor wrote: > > >>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. >> >> > > >I have committed a fix to the nve(4) driver very recently in HEAD. I >don't think it could fix the device timeout issues, however, it might >help with the panics you were getting. If you could give this fix a >try, I'd be grateful. > >Cheers, >Maxime > > Ok, I'll. If it seems okay, is it possible to commit it to RELENG_6? Cheers, Gábor Kövesdán
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