Rhine VT6102 problems

[Lowell Gilbert]

Urban <mailing.lists at ecr-consulting.se> writes:

> Hi, we have used VIA MS10000 mini-itx boards with the VT6102 network
> controller the last 6 moth with FreeBSD 5.4 great succeess. Now we
> received a new batch and now the network controller is not working
> properly (for all units). After changing the line in rc.conf to
> "vr0_ifconfg ... media 100baseTX" it works for one boot, but when
> rebooting again it will not work. When the network does not work there
> is 32 lines of ukphy0 to ukphy31 in dmesg and after that we also got
> vr0: watchdog timeout. I have searched the internet and there is
> reported problems about this in the past but there seems to be no real
> solution. We have tried different configuration with/without ACPI
> enabled, forcing the card to 10Mb and 100Mb, different switches
> without success. Is there any patches or solutions of this problem?

I can't quite parse what happened exactly.  It sounds like you had a
bunch of boards that worked fine, got a bunch of new boards, installed
the same software, and now the new and old boards don't work.  I don't
think that's what you meant to say, but that's the way it reads to
me.  Can you explain further?

Also, try 6.0; I have a vague sense you may be having troubles routing
interrupts, and the specific problem may have been fixed already.

-- 
Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area
		http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/