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On Wed, Mar 15, 2006 at 03:01:33PM -0600, Jonathan A. Kollasch wrote:
> On Sun, Mar 12, 2006 at 03:17:56PM -0800, Chuck Silvers wrote:
> > hi folks,
> >=20
> > I ported OpenBSD's "nfe" driver for the NVIDIA ethernet and added it
> > to -current just now.  please try it out and report any problems
> > (or successes, for that matter).
> >=20
>=20
> On a nForce 4 board, running:
>=20
> NetBSD dolomite.xxx.xxx.xxx 3.99.17 NetBSD 3.99.17 (GENERIC_ACPI) #0: Wed=
 Mar 15 04:38:49 CST 2006  jakllsch@dolomite.xxx.xxx.xxx:/mnt/wd1a/jakllsch=
/dolomite-current-20060315/src/sys/arch/amd64/compile/obj/GENERIC_ACPI amd64
>=20
> and a 3.0 userland.
>=20
> dmesg:
> nfe0 at pci0 dev 10 function 0: ioapic0 pin 5 (irq 5), address 00:04:61:9=
d:xx:xx
> ciphy0 at nfe0 phy 1: Cicada CS8201 10/100/1000TX PHY, rev. 3
>=20
> pcictl shows device ID 0x0057.
>=20
> I can get full (a 9.6MB/s scp) receive performance, yet transmit is bad,
> it starts at about 3 MB/s then drops to about 24 KB/s.  Sometimes it
> seems to lock up the DSS-8+ HW ver G1 switch; the 10Mbit hub doesn't seem
> to lock up.  But it's useable enough to connect to home and write this
> message.
>=20

Well, I've tested this again, AFAICT it works flawlessly.  Perhaps
it's the actual GigE switch it's hooked to now, but I doubt it.

This is also a slightly different (single core) system, and
running a straight 3.99.21 GENERIC.

> However this is great progress for NetBSD.  Truly amazing.
>=20
> 	Jonathan Kollasch

 	Jonathan Kollasch

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