VIA VT6103 support (VIA EPIA PD)

[Jan Mikael Melen]

Hi,

I have a PD board running FreeBSD 6 and here something that I have noticed. I 
have had the PD board only for few months and have not had really time stress 
test it but it works pretty fine as wireless-AP and firewall for rest of my 
home network.

Few weird things that I have noticed are that from the network device you 
can't get the full 100Mbit/s out of the ethernet ports. My friend has the 
EPIA PD-6000 with NetBSD and he has experienced the same problem that you can 
get only roughly 20 Mbit/s through the interfaces. He has also EPIA SP-8000 
where he gets the whole 100Mbit/s through the interface.  

Other weird thing is that I get a kernel panic after final sync when halting 
system, I've investigated that this propably doesn't have anything to do with 
the VIA EPIA motherboard and I think the problem has something do either with 
bridging or the atheros wireless driver.

  Regards,
     Jan

On Sunday 25 September 2005 16:53, Oliver Fromme wrote:
> Mark J. Sommer <msommer at argotsoft.com> wrote:
>  > Friend found a post regarding this.  Says there is an update to the BIOS
>  > too.  Please check out:
>  >
>  > http://forums.viaarena.com/messageview.aspx?catid=28&threadid=60131
>
> Thanks, I've read through the complete thread (more than
> 300 messages).  It seems that the lock-ups people have been
> experiencing were caused by several issues, most of which
> are only Linux-specific (bugs in the longhaul driver and
> in the itvt driver, and problems caused by using optimized
> 686-code).  I don't expect any of those problems to appear
> under FreeBSD.  It's also worth noting that there are _no_
> FreeBSD PRs at all which mention such problems with EPIA
> boards.  The only problem I've been readong about was the
> VT6102/6103 issue, and that's why I wrote the initial
> message in this thread.
>
> (BTW, some people also reported that their problems were
> caused by improperly grounded hardware.)
>
>  > If anyone has this working properly with FreeBSD, I'd appreciate
>  > knowing.  I hear the Ethernet on these are not great performers.
>
> I'll report as soon as I got my PD board and performed some
> testing.
>
> Best regards
>    Oliver