Re: watchdog timeout with nfe(4)

["Sepherosa Ziehau" <sepherosa@xxxxxxxxx>]

On 10/23/06, Eli Green <eli@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 2006-10-23, Simon 'corecode' Schubert wrote:
> >Eli Green wrote:
> >>The ridiculous popularity of the nForce boards usually means that drivers
> >>get written for the important components. Once I've got the network card
> >>working, I'll try the FreeBSD HDA patch that somebody posted recently and
> >>see if the sound card works -- it should, I'm pretty sure it's an intel
> >>chipset.
> >
> >the HDA driver works on the CSM, that's what i am using here to test it :)
> >
> >to the nfe:  i tested a preliminary version from sephe, but didn't have
> >oportunity to switch this since the import - i'm still using the nv driver.
> >
> >cheers
> >  simon
> >
>
> Cool!
>
> For the network card, are you using any special sysctl settings to get
> it to work? I tried the nv driver and didn't have any more luck with it
> than with nfe. Even nvidia is encouraging people to use the open source

BTW, have you tried polling(4)?
What's the output of `ifconfig nfe0`?

> driver (on Linux, anyway) rather than the one they wrote (wierdos).
>
> It's possible that when I tried nv, I tried it after having loaded nfe
> and the card may have been in a strange state. Whenever I load nfe in

I think you should unload nfe before load nv

> DragonFly, I then need to power the machine off completely before
> Windows can use the card.

Some registers are quite sticky ;-), I needed to power off computer
for 3min if I nuked some re(4) PHY registers

Best Regards,
sephe

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