axe(4) (Belkin F5D5055) problems

[Niki Denev]

On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 6:42 PM, Niki Denev <ndenev at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 12:27 PM, Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Sat, Mar 28, 2009 at 11:59:13AM +0200, Niki Denev wrote:
>>> 2009/3/28 Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh at gmail.com>:
>>> > On Fri, Mar 27, 2009 at 09:14:06PM +0200, Nikolay Denev wrote:
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>>> >> Hello,
>>> >>
>>> >> I'm running -current from 23.03.09 and I'm experiencing some axe(4)
>>> >> problems.
>>> >> Basically the network connection works but when some more serious
>>> >> traffic hits the
>>> >> interface (i.e. torrent download) it then dies, ifconfig down/up
>>> >> does not help, only replugging of the adapter.
>>> >>
>>> >> I've tried running with hw.usb2.axe.debug=15 and the output was many
>>> >> lines of:
>>> >>
>>> >> ? ?axe_bulk_write_callback:853: transfer complete
>>> >>
>>> >> then a pause of several seconds and the kernel begins to print :
>>> >>
>>> >> ? ?axe_bulk_write_callback:925: transfer error, USB_ERR_TIMEOUT
>>> >>
>>> >> Another strange thing that I noticed is that, while the interface
>>> >> seems to be
>>> >> connected and working, if I type many times ifconfig ue0 consecutively
>>> >> most of the time it would show different settings for the auto
>>> >> negotiated link.
>>> >> I.e. it would cycle between 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, no carrier,
>>> >> 100BaseT-FDX hw-loopback and 1000BaseT-FDX hw-loopback.
>>> >>
>>> >> The switch does not seem to register link flaps.
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > axe(4) requires exact link state/speed information from mii(4) to
>>> > reprogram controller to resolved speed/duplex. In this case
>>> > ukphy(4) seems to report fake link state/speed to axe(4).
>>> >
>>> >> The kernel messages for the interface are :
>>> >>
>>> >> ? ?ugen2.5: <Belkin Components> at usbus2
>>> >> ? ?axe0: <Belkin Components F5D5055, rev 2.00/0.01, addr 5> on usbus2
>>> >> ? ?axe0: PHYADDR 0xe0:0x01
>>> >> ? ?miibus0: <MII bus> on axe0
>>> >> ? ?ukphy0: <Generic IEEE 802.3u media interface> PHY 1 on miibus0
>>> >> ? ?ukphy0: ?10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX,
>>> >> 1000baseT, 1000baseT-FDX, auto
>>> >> ? ?ue0: <USB Ethernet> on axe0
>>> >> ? ?ue0: Ethernet address: 00:11:50:xx:xx:xx
>>> >>
>>> >> devinfo -vr | grep phy
>>> >> ukphy0 pnpinfo oui=0xa0bc model=0x1 rev=0x2 at phyno=1
>>> >>
>>> >
>>> > This looks like Agere systems ET110C TruePHY. Would you try
>>> > attached patch? Because truephy(4) pokes some undocumented PHY
>>> > registers on PHY reset I'm not sure this model also requires that
>>> > magic to make it work though.
>>> >
>>>
>>> Hi Pyun,
>>>
>>> Thanks for the patch.
>>>
>>> With it the PHY is now detected as truephy.
>>> The only thing that i notice is that if the media status changes displayed with
>>> ifconfig are less frequent, and I mostly see 1000baseT-FDX and 100baseT-HDX
>>> The packet loss is still there, and the interface again stops to work
>>> after some time.
>>>
>>
>> Ok, revert previous patch and try attached one. This one does not
>> try to load ET1011C dsp codes. If this does not work next thing
>> would be try to load dsp code for ET1011C revision 1 model.
>> Not sure where I can find required dsp code.
>>
>
> There don't seem to be any improvement with the new patch.
> The packetloss and media status changes are still here.
> Maybe check Linux/Solaris/OtherBSD driver?
>
> --
> Niki
>

LSI seem to have several documents about this phy chip, including
datasheet (which you probably have) and errata :
http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/documentation/networking/ethernet/et1011c/DS06-161GPHY_ET1011C_09-28-2007.pdf
http://www.lsi.com/DistributionSystem/AssetDocument/documentation/networking/ethernet/et1011c/ET1011C_Errata_08June2007.pdf

Regards,
Niki