vge(4) driver not working at 1G speeds

[Pyun YongHyeon]

On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:13:19AM +0100, Stuart Fraser wrote:
 > Hi,
 > I'm trying to get a Via Velocity Gigabit Networking driver vge(4) to work at
 > 1000baseTX on a Via EPIA SN18000 Motherboard.
 > 
 > It will always Auto negotiation and back-off to 100MB Full duplex, which
 > works
 > Perfectly (so far). When I try to manually force the card 1000baseTX the
 > interface
 > status reports 'no carrier' and I can get not connectivity. I have tried
 > Ubuntu live disk and it works seamlessly to 1GB, so I'm sure the
 > cabling/switch etc is fine and the issue is with the driver.
 > 
 > So I have tried 1000baseTX full and half duplex. I have tried to disable the
 > hardware handoff using the mediaopt commands -rxcsum and -txcsum. Further I
 > have tried to use the link0 operation as described in the man page but I
 > get:
 > 
 > nas# ifconfig vge0 mediaopt link0
 > ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
 > 
 > Further I have tried Release 7.0 and Stable 7 with the vge driver compiled
 > In to the kernel also as an external module loaded through boot/loader.conf
 > and lastly waiting until a full boot has completed and manually loading the
 > if_vge module.
 > 
 > The only thing I can see is that the chipset is actually a VT6130 and
 > perhaps the driver needs 'tweaked' or there is some sysctl somewhere to poke
 > it into life. As I say it works fine in 100MB mode and I can use 100M for a
 > while but I'm planning on using this as a NAS so 1G would be preferred.
 > 
 > Any help, suggestions, thoughts would be appreciated. Anyone got it working
 > or tried?
 > Should I report it as a bug?
 > 

Would you show me verbosed boot message?
Old VIA VT6120/VT6122 controllers used to ciphy(4) but newer PCIe
Velocity gigabit controllers, VT6130/VT6132, might use other
variants of the PHY.

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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon