Re: Call for testers: Atheros AR8121(L1E)/AR8113/AR8114(L2E) ethernet

On Mon, Nov 03, 2008 at 08:22:51PM +0300, Boris Samorodov wrote:
 > Pyun YongHyeon <pyunyh_at_gmail.com> writes:
 > 
 > > As bruffer pointed out the device name chosen conflicts with other
 > > driver in tree so I renamed it to ale(4).The URL for the driver is
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_ale.c
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alereg.h
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/if_alevar.h
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/Makefile
 > > or
 > > http://people.freebsd.org/~yongari/ale/ale.20081030.tar.gz
 > > Sorry for confusion.
 > 
 > Tested at EeePC-1000, works fine. BIG thank you, much appreciated.

No problem. It's my pleasure to add new hardware to the supported
lists of hardwares.

 > Here is some additional info.
 > 
 > -- dmesg --
 > ale0: <Atheros AR8121/AR8113/AR8114 PCIe Ethernet> port 0xec80-0xecff mem 0xfbfc0000-0xfbffffff irq 17 at device 0.0 on pci4
 > ale0: Reserved 0x40000 bytes for rid 0x10 type 3 at 0xfbfc0000
 > ale0: PCI device revision : 0x00b0
 > ale0: Chip id/revision : 0xb002
 > ale0: 960 Tx FIFO, 1024 Rx FIFO
 > ale0: MSIX count : 0
 > ale0: MSI count : 1
 > ale0: attempting to allocate 1 MSI vectors (1 supported)
 > ale0: using IRQ 256 for MSI
 > ale0: Using 1 MSI messages.
 > ale0: Read request size : 512 bytes.
 > ale0: TLP payload size : 128 bytes.
 > ale0: bpf attached
 > ale0: Ethernet address: 00:22:15:91:e7:98
 > ale0: [MPSAFE]
 > ale0: [FILTER]
 > ale0: link state changed to DOWN
 > ale0: interrupt moderation is 100 us.
 > ale0: link state changed to UP
 > -- pciconf --
 > ale0_at_pci0:4:0:0:        class=0x020000 card=0x83241043 chip=0x10261969 rev=0xb0 hdr=0x00
 >     vendor     = 'Attansic (Now owned by Atheros)'
 >     class      = network
 >     subclass   = ethernet
 > -- devinfo --
 >           pci4
 >             ale0 pnpinfo vendor=0x1969 device=0x1026 subvendor=0x1043 subdevice=0x8324 class=0x020000 at slot=0 function=0
 >                 Interrupt request lines:
 >                     256
 >                 I/O ports:
 >                     0xec80-0xecff
 >                 I/O memory addresses:
 >                     0xfbfc0000-0xfbffffff
 >               miibus0
 >                 atphy0 pnpinfo oui=0x1374 model=0x1 rev=0x9 at phyno=0
 > -----
 > 

I had one report that link state changing was not handled correctly
for the first time boot. He said unpluging and replugging UTP cable
was necessary to make it work on EeePC-1000. Did you also see the
same issue?

-- 
Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon