Call for testers - dc ethernet driver patch
Jeremy Messenger
mezz7 at cox.net
Thu Jan 8 11:38:52 PST 2004
On Wed, 7 Jan 2004 11:32:23 -0800 (PST), Don Lewis <truckman at FreeBSD.org>
wrote:
> The dc driver has been broken ever since it was converted to use busdma.
> The symptoms are that it reports spurious output errors and collisions,
> even when running in full-duplex mode. I believe the patch below fixes
> the problem, but I do not have the appropriate hardware to test it. I
> have had one gotten one report so far from someone who claims this patch
> fixed the problems he was seeing. I'd appreciate further testing of
> this patch, especially with as many of the chipsets supported by the
> driver as possible so that I can commit this patch. Please mention the
> type of hardware you are using (machine architecture and card probe
> message) in your reports. This is somewhat time critical because I've
> had users express interest in getting this into 5.2.
Thanks, it's improvement.. I have LinkSys v2.0 and 5.0, I usually get like
two to three 'TX underrun.....' times when I transfer the over 1gig
between two machines and now I only get one. I have tested it like three
times and just one at each time. The collisions is better.
Before:
==================
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
dc0 1500 <Link#1> 00:04:5a:79:36:96 192317 0 148854 0
21803
I usually get the collisions by the small things such as only surf, ssh or
whatever.
==================
After:
==================
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
dc0 1500 <Link#1> 00:04:5a:79:36:96 390765 0 1392718
0 0
Now, it's better.
==================
On the other machine that has LinkSys v2.0:
==================
Name Mtu Network Address Ipkts Ierrs Opkts Oerrs
Coll
dc0 1500 <Link#1> 00:a0:cc:34:c2:a6 1085003 0 181102
1 0
I think, an error might be from LOR (very easy to reproduce and your patch
doesn't cause this, because before/after patch I get LOR).. I am planning
to search in the mailing to make sure if there's no same LOR then I will
report. It's transfer around over 1gig by NFS.
==================
Linksys v2.0 (LNE100):
==================
dc0 at pci0:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0xc00111ad chip=0xc11511ad rev=0x25
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'Lite-On Communications Inc'
device = 'LC82C115 PNIC II 10/100 PCI MAC/PHY'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.9 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::2a0:ccff:fe34:c2a6%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
inet 192.168.1.10 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.10
inet 192.168.1.11 netmask 0xffffffff broadcast 192.168.1.11
ether 00:a0:cc:34:c2:a6
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
==================
Linksys: v5.0 (LNE100):
==================
dc0 at pci0:12:0: class=0x020000 card=0x05741317 chip=0x09851317 rev=0x11
hdr=0x00 vendor = 'ADMtek Inc'
device = 'AM983 Comet Fast Ethernet Adapter'
class = network
subclass = ethernet
dc0: flags=8843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
inet 192.168.1.7 netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast 192.168.1.255
inet6 fe80::204:5aff:fe79:3696%dc0 prefixlen 64 scopeid 0x1
ether 00:04:5a:79:36:96
media: Ethernet autoselect (100baseTX <full-duplex>)
status: active
==================
Cheers,
Mezz
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