RELENG_7 if_nve panic

[Dmitry Sivachenko]

On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 01:00:29PM +0100, Bartosz Stec wrote:
> W dniu 2010-01-26 10:29, Dmitry Sivachenko pisze:
> > Hello!
> >
> > I recompiled recent RELENG_7 and I get the following panic after
> > trying to kldload if_nve (interesting stack frames are 12, 13, 14 I guess).
> > Previous version of RELENG_7 (compiled in the middle of December)
> > worked fine.  Last few days I was trying to re-cvsup and always get the
> > same panic.  I get FreeBSD sources via cvsup (cvsup5.freebsd.org).
> >
> > Any suggestions?
> >
> >    
> As well as I know nve driver is based on nvidia binaries (and it's 
> buggy), and that's way it was replaced by nfe driver as default for 
> nvidia based NICs as soon as it was ported from OpenBSD.
> So my suggestion - if you just need NIC working, use nfe not nve.
> 

Thanks for reminding me about nfe.

I just tried it and it does work.

I tried nfe sometime in the summer and it did not work on my hardware.
That is why I was sticking to nve.

Now it seems I can switch to nfe.

(but nve is still broken if someone cares).