cvs commit: src/sys/dev/sk if_sk.c if_skreg.h

[Bjoern A. Zeeb]

On Fri, 28 Apr 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Joe Marcus Clarke wrote:
>> On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 03:17 +0000, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>> sobomax     2006-04-28 03:17:37 UTC
>>>
>>>   FreeBSD src repository
>>>
>>>   Modified files:
>>>     sys/dev/sk           if_sk.c if_skreg.h   Log:
>>>   Add some incomplete support for Marvell Yukon EC controllers based on
>>>   OpenBSD changes. With these changes, PHY part of the driver becomes
>>>   functional (it senses media changes and negotiates speed just fine),
>>>   previously it just hang with no PHY message, but no data goes through
>>>   interface (error message is "can not stop transfer of Tx/Rx descriptor).
>>>     Hopefully somebody with more clue/free time will be able to pick up
>>>   after me.
>> 
>> Maxim, I patched if_sk in a similar fashion, and got the same errors you
>> did.  I took a look at the Linux sky2 driver which works with the
>> MacBook Yukon-II, and the Yukon-II chipset is very different from the
>> Yukon.
>> 
>> However, I did find that the SysKonnect-provided Yukon-II driver works
>> quite well (see
>> http://lists.freebsd.org/pipermail/freebsd-net/2006-January/009543.html). 
>> Building the driver was easy.  I just untarred the source to 
>> /usr/src/sys/dev/myk, and did a make all.  With this driver, I was able to 
>> get the wired ethernet in the MacBook to pass traffic.
>
> Thanks for the pointer, I will try that. It is not a big issue for me, 
> though, since ath works perfectly just OOB.

So are you going to back out your last change to sk(4)?

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