Re: NVE

From: Maxime Henrion (mux_at_FreeBSD.org)
Date: 07/27/05

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    Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 14:09:02 +0200
    To: K??vesd??n G??bor <gabor.kovesdan@t-hosting.hu>
    
    

    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
    >
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