if_vr(4) and DFE520-TX

YongHyeon PYUN pyunyh at gmail.com
Tue Jan 15 02:44:38 UTC 2013


On Mon, Jan 14, 2013 at 03:52:18PM +0400, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
> YongHyeon PYUN wrote on 14.01.2013 10:15:
> >On Sat, Jan 12, 2013 at 06:49:13PM +0400, Ruslan Makhmatkhanov wrote:
> >>Ok, I got some details. It's an DFE-520TX (/C1 or rev. C1). I crafted an
> >>patch attached, but whenever kldloading the modified if_vr, I got this:
> 
> [...]
> 
> >>I also tried to apply VR_Q_NEEDALIGN quirk, but nothing is changed. Any
> >>hints?
> >
> >I recall D-Link was one of notorious vendor which used to
> >completely change its chip set in later revisions without notice. So
> >I'm afraid the controller you have may not be a VIA manufactured
> >one.
> >Could you take a picture of the chip set of controller and let
> >others see it? I guess it could be a RealTek 8139 or 8139C+.
> 
> Here they are. Both front and back for the case (see no traces of 
> RealTek though):
> 
> http://s2.postimage.org/9nvkrlpqx/IMAG1040.jpg
> http://s2.postimage.org/4qi06hnrt/IMAG1041.jpg

Thanks. Try attached patch and let me know how it works.
If that patch does not work, try setting a loader tunable like the
following.
dev.rl.0.prefer_iomap=0
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