Re: 2nd nfe interface not showing up on Tyan S2895

From: Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com>
Date: Mon, 29 Oct 2007 18:40:23 +0900
On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 10:02:08AM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
 > Dear Pyun YongHyeon,
 > 
 > > On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:27:25PM +0100, Arno J. Klaassen wrote:
 > >  > Hi,
 > >  > 
 > >  > I'm playing with RELENG_7 on a spare S2895 I have around and
 > >  > have difficulties with the ethernet interfaces :
 > >  > 
 > >  >  - nfe0 shows up and works OK under 1Gbps (at least for
 > >  >    buildworlds etc over NFS) but under 100Mbps it says :
 > >  > 
 > >  >     install kernel: nfe0: tx v2 error 0x6004
 > >  >     install kernel: nfe0: tx v2 error 0x6204<UNDERFLOW>
 > >  > 
 > > 
 > > Because developers don't know what exact meaning for Tx completion
 > > status word would be(Only NVIDIA knows that) nfe(4) just shows the
 > > possible error candidate.
 > 
 > OK
 > 
 > > If you see the code you may notice no error
 > > recovery is attempted for the case.
 > > So I guess you can also ignore it unless the message contiously is
 > > printed on youe console while network activity is in progress.
 > 
 > Ehmm, I notice no network activity at all ... when plugged at
 > a 100Mbps 3com hub.
 > As said, plugged at a (Netgear) 1Gbps it works flawlessly.
 > 
 > Let me know if I can test a patch/sysctl etc. For the time being
 > I will use this board internally anyway.
 >  

Ok, show me the output of verbosed boot messagges related with
nfe(4)/PHY driver. Also let me know the output of "pciconf -lcv".
Btw, did you have a manual media option for nfe(4)?

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
Received on Mon Oct 29 2007 - 20:36:54 UTC

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