nve(4) patch - please test!

[David Xu]

Bjoern A. Zeeb wrote:

> Hi,
>
> everyone out there who had only seen timeouts like
>     nve0: device timeout (4)
> on nve and __never got it working at all__ please try this patch[1]
> which made my nve working from 0 to 99.
>
> I still can get timeouts by for example flood pinging another machine
> on the local LAN but it all recovers on it's own and I can work on
> that machine and do things like find / over ssh without losing
> connectivity. Fixing the timeouts will be another problem that needs
> to be addressed later.
>
> Greetings
> Bjoern A. Zeeb
>
>
> [1] http://sources.zabbadoz.net/freebsd/patchset/nve-20051209-01.diff

It saves the nve on my EPOX 9nda3j board!
it is a NForce3 250 GB, it is working now, oh,  you are my hero!

David Xu