nfe(4)

[Jonathan A. Kollasch]

Hi,

Would my impression that people are having better luck with nfe(4) since
if_nfe.c 1.14 be correct?

Also, I notice however that the fixes in that version do not
appear to have been pulled up to netbsd-4.

Jonathan Kollasch

[David Brownlee]

Post by Jonathan A. Kollasch
Hi,
Would my impression that people are having better luck with nfe(4) since
if_nfe.c 1.14 be correct?
Also, I notice however that the fixes in that version do not
appear to have been pulled up to netbsd-4.

I've been running with netbsd-4 since BETA on a Shuttle SN45G
nfe0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: NVIDIA nForce2 Ethernet (rev. 0xa1)
and it seems to be fine (*). I'll build an RC1 kernel with r1.14
and see if its still happy.

I'm assuming that includes if_nfereg.h r1.4 also :)

(*) The machine is a junk salvage which needs to be underclocked
to boot at all, fails its BIOS settings when it loses mains power,
and frequently waits several minutes after the power button has
been pressed before it powers on to boot. Certain apps, such as
firefox and mplayer will freeze intermittantly (but gxine does
not). So 'fine' is very much a relative term here.

[David Brownlee]

Post by David Brownlee

Post by Jonathan A. Kollasch
Hi,
Would my impression that people are having better luck with nfe(4) since
if_nfe.c 1.14 be correct?
Also, I notice however that the fixes in that version do not
appear to have been pulled up to netbsd-4.

I've been running with netbsd-4 since BETA on a Shuttle SN45G
nfe0 at pci0 dev 4 function 0: NVIDIA nForce2 Ethernet (rev. 0xa1)
and it seems to be fine (*). I'll build an RC1 kernel with r1.14
and see if its still happy.
I'm assuming that includes if_nfereg.h r1.4 also :)
(*) The machine is a junk salvage which needs to be underclocked
to boot at all, fails its BIOS settings when it loses mains power,
and frequently waits several minutes after the power button has
been pressed before it powers on to boot. Certain apps, such as
firefox and mplayer will freeze intermittantly (but gxine does
not). So 'fine' is very much a relative term here.

Hmm, with a 4.0_RC1 kernel with if_nfe.c 1.14 & if_nfereg.h 1.4
that machine is no longer able to login to kde with home on nfs.
Will try to collect more details.