Date: Sat, 21 Dec 2002 15:55:56 -0500 From: The Anarcat <anarcat@anarcat.ath.cx> To: Gianmarco Giovannelli <gmarco@scotty.masternet.it> Cc: stable@freebsd.org, Luigi Rizzo <luigi@info.iet.unipi.it> Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard Message-ID: <20021221205555.GB73667@shall.anarcat.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <5.2.0.9.2.20021221074556.02af7ea8@194.184.65.7> References: <02Dec12.111628nzdt.119047@homer.fire.org.nz> <006601c29cab$ec3a9c80$0100000a@D9NLZD0J> <20021205234945.GA70487@tassie.net.au> <02Dec6.140248nzdt.119052@homer.fire.org.nz> <20021211164627.G28042@staff.msen.com> <02Dec12.111628nzdt.119047@homer.fire.org.nz> <5.2.0.9.2.20021221074556.02af7ea8@194.184.65.7>
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On Sam d=E9c 21, 2002 at 08:14:44 +0100, Gianmarco Giovannelli wrote: > At 11/12/2002, you wrote: > >Andrew Thompson wrote: > > > >>>Does the on-board Etherernet work with FreeBSD? > >>> > >>The onboard ethernet also works fine (vr0), but I am sceptical about its > >>reliability/performance. > >Just a personal experience: I had a lot of problems delivering=20 > >high-bandwidth data through a vr-driven card, some time ago. The card=20 > >would just freeze and a ifconfig down/up was necessary to bring back=20 > >proper functionality. > > > >I think, however, that patches have been applied to -stable and 4.7 shou= ld=20 > >effectively be immune to this problem. > > > >But this doesn't remove the doubts I too have about this card chipset. >=20 > I have installed and running FreeBSD 4.7-STABLE on a c3 800. > The vr driver seems to works quite well as the PPPoE media (even at 100mb) Just a quick note... The problems I had with the vr driver and cards only occured at high throughput. That is FTP transfer at over 9 Mbit/s, ie. using most of a 10baseT link. Also, 4.7 and upwards *should* be immune to the vr bugs, since a lot of corrections have been done to the driver. I have not been able to break the driver since even the early patches, and now we've found the real driver from RealTech (I think) themselves. So don't worry too much about vr0. :) A. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message
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