Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard

[Carl Morley]

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-freebsd-stable at freebsd.org [mailto:owner-freebsd-
> stable at freebsd.org] On Behalf Of Olivier Cortes
> Sent: Thursday, 12 December 2002 19:09
> To: freebsd-stable at freebsd.org
> Subject: Re: Via EPIA Mini-ITX motherboard
> 
> 
> i had such problems on my mini-ITX.
> when sharing irq's with video or sound card, network traffic during
ogg
> playing (for example on nfs) or  quick moving windows crashed the
> interface. ifconfig down/up resolved the problem.
> 
> it has been solved for a while now (i couldn't reproduce this problem)
i
> think.
> 
> regards,
> 
> OLivier
> 
> Le Jeudi 12 Décembre 2002 03:45, The Anarcat a écrit :
> > Andrew Thompson wrote:
> > >>Does the on-board Etherernet work with FreeBSD?
> > >
> > >The onboard ethernet also works fine (vr0), but I am sceptical
about
> > > its reliability/performance.
> >
> > Just a personal experience: I had a lot of problems delivering
> > high-bandwidth data through a vr-driven card, some time ago. The
card
> > would just freeze and a ifconfig down/up was necessary to bring back
> > proper functionality.
> >
> > I think, however, that patches have been applied to -stable and 4.7
> > should effectively be immune to this problem.
> >
> > But this doesn't remove the doubts I too have about this card
chipset.
> >
> > A.
> >
> >
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> --
> Olivier Cortes

Yes, I have had these problems too.  And even the HDD controller has
done some pretty mysterious stuff.

Even with the patched drivers in 4.8, I still regularly get " vr0: rx
packet lost" errors.

Not happy in general and would essentially advise to steer clear, or get
heavily involved!


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