Ethernet Card Times out on Transfer of Large Files

[Daniel Bye]

On Mon, Dec 17, 2007 at 01:07:57AM -0600, W. D. wrote:
> Hello Gentlemen:
> 
> The NVidia Ethernet card, nve0, seems to burp on transfers
> of large files.  After browsing the Web, apparently this
> is a fairly common problem:
> 
> http://www.google.com/search?q=nve0+device+timeout+FreeBSD
> 
> From what I can tell, this seems to be the best, most recent
> fix:
> http://www.f.csce.kyushu-u.ac.jp/~shigeaki/software/freebsd-nfe.html
> 
> Could anyone please point me to some instructions on 
> how to compile, install, and load this driver?
> 
> When running "make install", this error shows up:
> 
> "/usr/share/mk/bsd.kmod.mk", line 12 "can't find kernel source tree"
> 
> Thank you so much for any light you can shed on this
> problem.

Install the source, do a buildworld/buildkernel and try again. There are
detailed instructions on both tasks in the handbook.

http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cvsup.html
http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/makeworld.html

Dan

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