FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

[Yuri Pankov]

Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
> Thanks for your reports.
> 
> I have not tested the driver on FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT and on the Cicada phys.
> I'll try it on these platforms.
> 
> ---
> S. Tagashira
> 
> Tyler Gee wrote:
>> Working like a charm (with the 88E1111 patch )
>>
>> FreeBSD xxx 6.1-RC FreeBSD 6.1-RC #3: Wed Apr 26 21:50:14 HST 2006    
>> root at so uth:/usr/obj/usr/src/sys/DESKBOT  amd64
>>
>> MS-7207 Motherboard
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Tyler
>>
>> On 4/26/06, Yuri Pankov <yuri.pankov at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
>>>> I am providing a FreeBSD device driver of NVIDIA nForce network 
>>>> adapter.
>>>> It is a native device driver and is based on the OpenBSD nfe driver.
>>>> The latest driver was tested on FreeBSD 6.1-RC/amd64 and seems to 
>>>> work stably
>>>> on my machine (ASUS A8N-SLI Premium).
>>>>
>>>> It can be downloaded at the following URL.
>>>> http://www.se.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
>>>>
>>>> Best regards
>>>> ---
>>>> S. Tagashira
>>>>
>>> I've tried this driver on recent FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT/amd64. Driver
>>> compiles, this is what I get after kldload if_nfe:
>>>
>>> nfe0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xe800-0xe807 mem
>>> 0xf5102000-0xf5102fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0
>>> nfe0: bpf attached
>>> nfe0: Ethernet address: 00:0f:ea:7d:f3:20
>>> nfe0: [MPSAFE]
>>> pci1: driver added
>>> miibus0: <MII bus> on nfe0
>>> ciphy0: <Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY> on miibus0
>>> ciphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT,
>>> 1000baseT-FDX, auto
>>> nfe0: link state changed to DOWN
>>> nfe0: gigabit link up
>>> nfe0: link state changed to UP
>>>
>>> ifconfig output:
>>>
>>> nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
>>>         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
>>>         inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
>>>         inet6 fe80::20f:eaff:fe7d:f320%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
>>>         ether 00:0f:ea:7d:f3:20
>>>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseTX <full-duplex>)
>>>         status: active
>>>
>>> Looks ok, but when I try to ping 10.10.10.2 it says 'host is down'.
>>> Though it works OK with if_nve driver.
>>>
>>> Anyway, thanks for your work!
>>>
>>> Yuri

Good day.

After applying ciphy.patch and using driver version 20060428, device is 
unable even to detect carrier (or current media settings):
nfe0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
         inet 10.10.10.1 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 10.10.10.255
         inet6 fe80::20f:eaff:fe7d:f320%nfe0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x3
         ether 00:0f:ea:7d:f3:20
         media: Ethernet autoselect (none)
         status: no carrier

Manually selecting media type (with `ifconfig nfe0 media <whatever>`) 
doesn't help either.

I'm using Gigabyte K8NXP-SLI m/b.

nfe0 at pci0:10:0: class=0x068000 card=0xe0001458 chip=0x005710de rev=0xa3 
hdr=0x00
     vendor   = 'NVIDIA Corporation'
     device   = 'nForce4 Ethernet Controller'
     class    = bridge

Yuri