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Date:      Sat, 10 Jul 2010 15:49:56 -0700
From:      Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh@gmail.com>
To:        Ryan Stone <rysto32@gmail.com>
Cc:        FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, yongari@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: msk(4) cannot receive packets on Marvell Yukon 88E8057
Message-ID:  <20100710224956.GC18475@michelle.cdnetworks.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTim_Mj-gX47b6qXY4abdlouXWH_V_Nq0bP5NwKDP@mail.gmail.com>
References:  <AANLkTim_Mj-gX47b6qXY4abdlouXWH_V_Nq0bP5NwKDP@mail.gmail.com>

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On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 11:19:27AM -0400, Ryan Stone wrote:
> I just got a new laptop that has a Marvell Yukon 88E8057 ethernet
> adapter.  The msk driver attaches to the hardware on the 8.1 release
> candidate, and I seem to be able to transmit packets just fine, but I
> can't receive packets reliably.  The first time I tried the driver a
> couple of pings succeeded, but dhcp didn't and now that I've tested
> for a while longer, it seems that the first ping succeeding was pure
> luck.
> 

Established link speed is 1000Mbps, right?
I guess 100Mbps may work if link partner is configured to use 100Mbps.

> Does anybody have ideas on where to start debugging this?  I'm willing
> to test patches, gather more information and basically do whatever it
> takes to get this working, as the laptop isn't too useful to me
> without networking.

Controllers that have 88E1149 PHY seems to have issues. Lack of
hardware access and data sheet also makes it hard to fix that.
Several patches I tried via remote debugging didn't help at all.
ATM I have no clue why it happens on some controllers. Sorry.



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