Re: more on if_sk problem

Quoting Jung-uk Kim <jkim_at_niksun.com>:

> On Tuesday 18 May 2004 02:22 pm, Kenneth Culver wrote:
>> I have done some more twiddling around with the problem I'm having
>> with the if_sk driver with a built-in 3com 940 Gig-e adapter.
>>
>> Basically the problem is that dhclient times out and I end up with
>> an address of 0.0.0.0 when I boot the machine. I've found that if I
>> remove IFF_MULTICAST from line 1473 of that driver, recompile the
>> kernel, and reboot, dhcp suddenly works right.
>>
>> Another thing I noticed is that every time an IP is added to the
>> interface with multicast enabled, the link goes down, and typing a
>> subsequent ifconfig shows "No carrier" for a few seconds. I don't
>> see this behavior on any other ethernet card (I have several fxp,
>> xl, and de type 10/100 cards). So basically I think there's some
>> kind of problem with the sk_setmulti() function in the sk driver.
>> Either that or the 3com 940 card is just wonky.
>
> Well, Marvell Yukon controller support is not really complete.  There
> are missiong pieces.  I haven't found time to fix it yet. :-( If you
> are running FreeBSD/i386, try vendor driver, which is almost
> complete:

It's still broken anyway with multicast turned off :-(...

It just happened to work the 2 times I tried it ... but then stopped working.

> http://www.syskonnect.com/syskonnect/support/driver/htm/freebsd52.htm
>
> JK
>
>> Anyway, this is what I've found, so hopefully someone can do
>> something with this info.
>>

Ken