NVE

[Kövesdán Gábor]

Maxime Henrion wrote:

>K??vesd??n G??bor wrote:
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>>yerenkow at uct.ua wrote:
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>>>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?
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>Hi,
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>>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.
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>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.
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>Cheers,
>Maxime
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Ok, I'll. If it seems okay, is it possible to commit it to RELENG_6?

Cheers,

Gábor Kövesdán