nve status on nforce4?

[O. Hartmann]

Andrew Gallatin wrote:

>I've got a fairly cheap DFI nforce4 based board with an nvidia
>ethernet adaptor in it.  512MB ram:
>
>nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xb400-0xb407 mem 0xfebf9000-0xfebf9fff irq 22 at device 10.0 on pci0
>nve0: Ethernet address 00:01:29:f5:6b:91
>miibus1: <MII bus> on nve0
>miibus1: <MII bus> on nve0
>ciphy0: <Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY> on miibus1
>ciphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
>nve0: Ethernet address: 00:01:29:f5:6b:91
>nve0: [GIANT-LOCKED]
>
>
>Running 7-current from last weekend (and pretty much anything since I
>installed it in June), the board passes no traffic at all according to
>the netstat counters, and according to tcpdump.  Yet it does seem to
>correctly detect the link accoring to ifconfig, and it seems to
>generate interrupts.
>
>
>This adaptor works flawlessly using another NVE based driver on
>Solaris/amd64,  and it works fine using the forcedeth driver on
>RHEL4, so it is not a hardware problem.
>
>The amd64 nvnetlib.o shipped with the Solaris driver has the same
>checksum as the FreeBSD one, so its not that our nvnetlib is out of
>date.
>
>My system has far less than 4GB of ram, so I don't see how it
>could be a memory hole issue.
>
>The 32-bit FreeBSD/i386 6.0-BETA2 mininst CD behaves the same, so
>I don't think its a 64-bit issue.
>
>The only report I've seen from somebody using an nve is with
>a different phy than mine (ukphy0 vs ciphy0)
>
>Has anybody with a desktop class NF4 based box had success with the
>nve adaptor?   What phy does your box have?
>
>
>
>Drew
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Dear Andrew.
I also had no success with the nve-NIC on my A8N-SLI Deluxe since the 
adaptor stops working when linked up. At the moment I have no equipment 
testing this again, since the machine moved from my lab to my home.
This is what dmesg tells me about the nve0 NIC, maybe this is of your 
interest:

nve0: <NVIDIA nForce MCP9 Networking Adapter> port 0xb000-0xb007 mem 
0xda000000-0xda000fff irq 23 at device 10.0 on pci0
nve0: Ethernet address 00:11:d8:92:a3:15
miibus1: <MII bus> on nve0
ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> on miibus1
ukphy0:  10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT, 
1000baseT-FDX, auto
nve0: Ethernet address: 00:11:d8:92:a3:15
nve0: [GIANT-LOCKED]

The also on-board sk0 adaptor works well and is NOT GIANT LOCKED.

Oliver