FreeBSD nfe driver for NVIDIA nForce network adapter

Mathieu Prevot freebsd-amd64 at club-internet.fr
Fri Jun 2 15:01:51 UTC 2006


On Mon, May 29, 2006 at 10:51:27AM +0200, O. Hartmann wrote:
> Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> >On Wed, May 10, 2006 at 02:15:09AM +0900, Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
> >>Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> >>>On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 11:30:03AM +0900, Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
> >>>
> >>>>Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> >>>>
> >>>>>On Mon, May 08, 2006 at 11:57:55PM +0900, Shigeaki Tagashira wrote:
> >>>>>
> >>>>>>Mathieu Prevot wrote:
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>>>The DG834Gv2 still doesn't see the device/MAC address.
> >>>>>>>>
> >>>>>>>I tryed `kldunload if_nfe.ko` and the system freezed (RELENG_6
> >>>>>>>amd64 SMP).
> >>>>>>>
> >>>>>>The freeze bug of kldunload will be fixed at next version.
> >>>>>>Do you know how does DG834Gv2 get MAC addresses? ARP?
> >>>>>>If it is ARP, I think they cannot communicate each other.
> >>>>>>Is the MAC address valid?
> >>>>>>Because the chipset can configure its MAC address.
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>>
> >>>>>I changed the MAC address and gave the same address as sis's one
> >>>>>(which
> >>>>>should be valid (what is a valid MAC address?) because the sis device's
> >>>>>MAC
> >>>>>address is seen by the DG834Gv2) but it didn't change anything.
> >>>>>
> >>>>>In the reference manual, I found a reference to ARP as general
> >>>>>protocol but it's not said explicitly that the DG834Gv2 use it:
> >>>>>ftp://downloads.netgear.com/files/dg834g_ref_manual.pdf
> >>>>>So I guess it's the protocol used.
> >>>>>
> >>>>How is the nve driver for FreeBSD?
> >>>>Have you already tried this?
> >>>>
> >>>Yes, it simply doesn't detect the device.
> >>Are MS-Windows installed on the machine?
> >>If so, how is the driver on MS-Windows?
> >
> >I installed recently NT5.0, and the network device is still not seen by the
> >DG834Gv2.
> >On recent RELENG_6, the if_nfe stopped to work, it worked fine with 
> >RELEASE_6_1
> >and RELENG_6 few days later. I have link up and down alternates and 
> >watchdog
> >timeouts...
> >
> >Regards,
> >Mathieu
> 
> I also see those alternating device UP and DOWN. My box is running 
> FreeBSD 6.1-STABEL as cvsupdated 25th May last time, based on ASUS 
> A8N32-SLI Deluxe.
> I do not see those UP and DOWNs on a regulare basis, they seem to occur 
> spradicaly. The box is UP (Athlon64 3500+ without SSE3), SCHED_ULE and 
> PREEMPTION eneabled in the kernel config.
> 
> oh

At the PRERELEASE epoch, it worked fine ...

MP


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