Re: NetBSD 9.0 not properly configuring NIC

[SAITOH Masanobu <msaitoh%execsw.org@localhost>]

Hi.

Please try atphy.c rev. 1.28.

On 2020/03/06 3:27, Rocky Hotas wrote:
> Hi Masanobu and sorry for the delay. I had issues (again) with the
> mailserver.
> 
> On mar 02 14:58, SAITOH Masanobu wrote:
> 
>> Could you test with ukphy by removing atphy from your kernel?
> 
> I did as you suggested, commenting the line
> 
> atphy*  at mii? phy ?                   # Attansic/Atheros PHYs
> 
> in /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC, recompiled and it works!
> 
> Here you can find:
> - new dmesg, https://pastebin.com/UyEqRFs7
> - new `ifconfig -a', https://pastebin.com/xHq2GZeJ
> 
> For me it's ok this way. If there is something else that I can do,
> please let me know.
> 
> If instead it's ok for you too, could you please include this
> modification in the kernel, so that -current and the next versions
> already have it?
> 
>>  Thanks in advance.
> 
> Thanks to you for the suggestion,
> 
> Rocky
> 
> 
> P.S.1
> 
> Some considerations/doubts:
> 
> - Just out of curiosity, was it possible (as an alternative) to disable
> `atphy' with `userconf disable atphy' in boot(8)? I tried it in a VM
> with wm(4) NIC, which uses makphy(4): booting with `userconf disable
> makphy', ukphy(4) has been used instead of makphy(4) (and it works).
> 
> - nfe(4) lists several mii(4) drivers (hope that they can be called this
> way): `ciphy', `icsphy', `makphy', `rlphy', but not `atphy'. So, I
> wonder: why `atphy' was called?
> 
> - I am not sure about this, but according to the motherboard manual
> 
>  <https://dlcdnets.asus.com/pub/ASUS/mb/socketAM2/M2N-MX_SE_Plus/E3353_M2N-MX_SE_PLUS.zip>
> 
> this NIC should also support 1 Gbps transmission, so I guess 1000baseTX,
> but the dmesg lists only 10base* and 100base*.
> 
> 
> P.S.2
> 
> If anyone is interested, the atphy(4) driver has been excluded from the
> kernel as follows. I downloaded the NetBSD sources (kernel, tools,
> ...) for NetBSD 9.0 release using the procedure in this Chapter:
> 
>  <http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-fetch.html>
> 
> with `cvs checkout -r netbsd-9-0-RELEASE -P src'.
> Then, as specified in
> 
>  <http://www.netbsd.org/docs/guide/en/chap-kernel.html>
> 
> I considered the GENERIC kernel configuration file for my architecture
> (amd64):
> 
>  /usr/src/sys/arch/amd64/conf/GENERIC
> 
> I copied it to a new file, MGENERIC and looked for `atphy' inside the
> file. The only line with this name is the one mentioned above:
> 
>  atphy*  at mii? phy ?                   # Attansic/Atheros PHYs
> 
> I commented it, and then compiled the kernel using the new configuration
> file:
> 
>  ./build.sh -j 3 -U tools kernel=MGENERIC
> 
> (`-j' is related to the number of threads, it may be 50 % higher than the
> number of cores, which in my case is 2).
> 
> Then, I installed and used the new kernel as instructed in par. 32.6 of the
> above chapter page.
> 
> This same procedure can be followed to remove/tune any other feature in
> the kernel configuration file (GENERIC, or any other in the directory).
> 


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