nfe problem on 8.0-BETA2
Ryan Rogers
webmaster at doghouserepair.com
Wed Jul 22 08:40:25 UTC 2009
b. f. wrote:
>> Seeing that nfe apparently worked on June 1st, I headed to the FTP to see
>> which snapshots were available. The earliest -CURRENT June snapshot was
>> dated the 8th, so I grabbed that one. The nics didn't work at all.
>>
>> So, there's a small window where something changed which broke nfe. Looking
>> at the SVN commit logs for if_nfe.c, nothing really fits in that window. To
>> me, this looks like something about general network device handling changed
>> which nfe nics can't cope with. I have no idea what that could be though,
>> so I'm hoping that someone on this list would be able to point me in the
>> right direction.
>>
>> Ryan
>
> Well, you guys picked a helluva week (June 1-8) in which to narrow
> down problems. It would help if you gave the exact revisions of the
> snapshots you are using. And if you are going to hunt this down, I
> would recommend getting a local subversion repository of the sources,
> so that you can selectively revert changes and then rebuild to test.
>
> I have a MCP61-based NIC using nfe, and I haven't had any problems.
> Since you both have Marvell 88E1116-based chipsets, I'm going to guess
> that one of yongari@'s changesets from June 2 was the source of your
> problems:
>
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193289
> http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/193291
>
> If you revert these and still can't get your NICs to work, then I
> think that probably the new ACPI import that began on June 5 with
> r193529 may be the next likely suspect.
>
> Regards,
> b.
>
>
Aha! I updated my 7.2-RELEASE install to r193288, and everything worked
fine. I then updated to r193289, and nfe broke! Now that I know what
I'm looking for, I'll see what I can do to get it working in the
morning. Thanks!
Ryan
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