nfe(4) issues

[Oliver Fromme]

dan at danneh.org wrote:
 > I might be covering old ground here, and I realise that this is resolved
 > in fbsd7, however I'm after an urgent fix, as I'm unable to wait for fbsd7
 > to become a release.
 > I have a rack server, with an nvidia nforce pro 3600 chipset, and the nic
 > cards use the mcp55 marvell 88e1121 chipset (dual gigabit lan). the nve
 > that's shipped with 6.2 doesn't recognise it, and have been following
 > instructions here at
 > http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki//software/freebsd-nfe.html to
 > attempt to get the nfe driver working on fbsd6.2.

It's probably _much_ easier to add the PCI ID of your MCP55
to the stock nve(4) driver on your FreeBSD 6 machine.  It
works -- that's exactly what I did in a similar case, but
only for the purpose of getting network access so I could
cvsup to 7-current.  The machine is now happily running 7-
current with the new nfe(4) driver.

Basically, you simply copy the device ID from the output
of "pciconf -lv" and insert it in if_nve.c and if_nvereg.h
(located in /sys/dev/nve).  I think there's even a PR about
it.

However, I recommend you update to 7-current anyway.  It is
already in code freeze for several weeks (in preparation
for the release), and it has been stable for me so far.

Best regards
   Oliver

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