sk0 problems on an Asus K8VSE Delux

[Lawrence Farr]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Mike Jakubik [mailto:mikej at rogers.com] 
> Sent: 05 July 2004 19:13
> To: Lawrence Farr
> Cc: 'Bjoern A. Zeeb'; freebsd-amd64 at freebsd.org
> Subject: RE: sk0 problems on an Asus K8VSE Delux
> 
> Lawrence Farr said:
> 
> > Hi Bjoern,
> >
> > I've tried with 5.2.1, and CURRENT as of today with the same result.
> > An FXP has no issues in the same machine. DHCP works, but takes a
> > long time.
> >
> > Lawrence Farr
> > EPC Direct Limited
> >
> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> From: Bjoern A. Zeeb [mailto:bzeeb-lists at lists.zabbadoz.net]
> >> Sent: 01 July 2004 19:18
> >> To: Lawrence Farr
> >> Cc: freebsd-amd64 at FreeBSD.org
> >> Subject: Re: sk0 problems on an Asus K8VSE Delux
> >>
> >> On Thu, 1 Jul 2004, Lawrence Farr wrote:
> >>
> >> > I have problems with my sk0 on an Asus K8V SE Deluxe board:
> >> >
> >> > It's built in to the board.
> >> > Running 5.2.1, or CURRENT from today, the interface stops if you
> >> > use CVSUP or NFS after a few seconds. If you ifconfig down it a
> >> > few times, then bring it back up, it will be working again for a
> >> > few seconds.
> >> ...
> >> > Anyone got any ideas where to start looking? ACPI and 
> APIC enabled
> >> > or disabled makes no difference. I've also put the newest BIOS
> >> > available on. Switch on the other end is a Summit Extreme 48.
> >>
> >> try getting a current onto the machine - this will improve the
> >> situation that sk will not lose connectivity; there are still some
> >> issues:
> >>
> >> - a LOR caused by locking in attach routine.
> >>
> >> - DHCP doesn't work on startup here; the sk takes to long to come
> >>   up; actually the machine ist up; I can login with a keyboard and
> >>   about at this point the sk comes up; this might be an issue with
> >>   the locking in the attach case; I think someone started to work
> >>   on this but I cannot remember who and if he finished.
> >>
> >> HTH
> >>
> 
> I am also having issues with sk on an Asus K8V, with current bios. The
> network stops when exposed to heavier traffic. Bringing the 
> interface down
> and up again temoporarily solves the problem. I had to put in 
> an external
> card, which works fine. This is on:
> 
> 5.2-CURRENT FreeBSD 5.2-CURRENT #0: Thu Jun 24 11:55:40 EDT 2004
> 
> 

Just to further confuse matters, I have an SK8V board with onboard sk0
that doesn't show these problems. This might be a red herring, but with
sk built into the kernel, it would lose connectivity almost immediately
when doing a cvsup, with sk as a module, it lasts about 30 seconds.

Lawrence Farr
EPC Direct Limited