Call for stge(4) testers
Christian Brueffer
brueffer at FreeBSD.org
Fri Jul 7 09:43:07 UTC 2006
On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:49:57PM +0900, Pyun YongHyeon wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 07, 2006 at 04:53:44AM +0000, Bill Paul wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jul 06, 2006 at 11:52:39AM +0000, Csaba Henk wrote:
> > > > On 2006-07-06, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > What model/maker you've got(pciconf -lv output)?
> > > >
> > > > stge0 at pci0:11:0: class=0x020000 card=0x545013f0 chip=0x102113f0 rev=0x07 hdr=0x00
> > > > vendor = 'Sundance Technology Inc'
> > > > class = network
> > > > subclass = ethernet
> > > >
> > > > And this is what shows up in dmesg:
> > > >
> > > > Jul 6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: stge0: <Sundance TC9021 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xef000000-0xef0001ff irq 11 at device 11.0 on pci0
> > > > Jul 6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: stge0: phy read fail
> > > > Jul 6 07:50:23 leavemealone last message repeated 31 times
> > > > Jul 6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: miibus2: <MII bus> on stge0
> > > > Jul 6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: e1000phy0: <Marvell 88E1000 Gigabit PHY> on miibus2
> > > > Jul 6 07:50:23 leavemealone kernel: e1000phy0: 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseTX-FDX, auto
> > > >
> > >
> > > Since your NIC has a Marvell PHY and shows many "phy read fail"
> > > message I have to investigate the root cause. I don't have
> > > TC9021 NIC with Marvell PHY. So I can't sure I can fix it.
> > >
> > > Does ifconfig(8) reports correct link speed/status?
> > > Does "phy read fail" message shows only at device attach time?
> >
> > FYI: I don't know if you have them or not, but a long time ago I
> > stashed away copies of the TC9020/TC9021 programming manuals. The
> > provenance of these parts is a little murky. I first learned of them
> > as being Sundance Technologies devices, but later I found references to
> > them belonging to a company called Tamarack M.I. Later still, a
> > company called ICplus ended up with them. ICplus eventually produced
> > a single chip device combining the TC902x MAC with an integrated PHY
> > (though I've yet to actually see a NIC that uses these anywhere).
> >
>
> ASUS NX1101 and some motherboards from ABIT have IC Plus GigE controller.
>
> > Sundance and Tamarack seem to have disappeared, but ICplus is still
> > around (www.icplus.com.tw) and they still have the gigE MAC and PHY
> > manuals online. They deleted the original TC902x manuals from their site,
>
> Yes, the online manuals are useless.
>
> > but I saved copies. :) I put all the manuals I have for these devices at
> > http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/Sundance along with the original ST201
> > manual. Note that I didn't have to sign any NDAs to get any of these.
> >
>
> Thank you very very much. I really appreciate it. I mailed to guys
> working for IC Plus a couple of of times and they all requested to
> sign NDAs so I gave up.
>
> > In case you can't tell, the hardware API for the ST201 and the TC902x
> > is copied very closely from the 3Com 3c90xB/3c90xC devices.
> >
> > Anyway, I'm posting these in case they help with maintaining the driver
> > (or if anyone just wants to tinker around with the hardware). Share
> > and enjoy!
> >
> > -Bill
> >
>
> Thanks again. I hope I can solve JUMBO frame issues soon.
>
There is also a BSD licensed driver for FreeBSD 4.x written by Tamarack.
No idea wheather or not it is still available, so I put it up for
download:
http://people.freebsd.org/~brueffer/TC902X_FreeBSD.zip
Maybe it can help in some way.
- Christian
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