Success with Qualcomm Atheros QCA8171

[Kevin Lo]

On Thu, Sep 25, 2014 at 11:44:24AM +0200, Nils Beyer wrote:
> 
> Hi Gulyaev,
> 
> Gulyaev Ghosh wrote:
> > Since I ask on the FreeBSD forums, there is a proposition to check
> > alx-freebsd and have initialized interface.
> >
> > So if someone have similar hardware, you can got your experience with
> > that project and share info.
> 
> I've got an onboard "AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet" adapter. With your proposed GIT-
> repository and using its branch "master" I'm able to rudimentarily use the
> NIC. But only if the network cable is short (< 2m). Using longer cables gives
> me a "no carrier" status. When it is connected, speed is abysmal and functio-
> nality ceases as soon as I perform an "iperf" benchmark until I reboot.
> 
> But for small data transfers (SSH, RSYNC, RDP) it's okay. Mark has done a good
> job so far:
> ===============================================================================
> #dmesg | grep alx
> alx0: <Qualcomm Atheros AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0x2000-0x207f mem 0xd0400000-0xd043ffff irq 16 at device 0.0 on pci2
> alx0: Ethernet address: 5c:f9:dd:55:c9:fb
> 
> #ifconfig alx0
> alx0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         ether 5c:f9:dd:55:c9:fb
>         inet6 fe80::5ef9:ddff:fe55:c9fb%alx0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x2 
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
>         media: Ethernet autoselect
>         status: no carrier
> 
> #pciconf -evl | tail -13
> alx0 at pci0:2:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x05621028 chip=0x10911969 rev=0x10 hdr=0x00
>     vendor     = 'Atheros Communications Inc.'
>     device     = 'AR8161 Gigabit Ethernet'
>     class      = network
>     subclass   = ethernet
>   PCI-e errors = Correctable Error Detected
>                  Non-Fatal Error Detected
>                  Unsupported Request Detected
>      Non-fatal = Unsupported Request
>      Corrected = Bad TLP
>                  Bad DLLP
>                  REPLAY_NUM Rollover
>                  Replay Timer Timeout
> ===============================================================================

AFAIK yongari@ is working on it.

> Regards,
> Nils

	Kevin