Re: axen

[Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost>]

On 08/08/2023 16:55, Robert Swindells wrote:
> Nick Hudson <nick.hudson%gmx.co.uk@localhost> wrote:
> > On 04/08/2023 18:52, Robert Swindells wrote:
> > > Has anyone used axen(4) recently?
> > >
> > > I needed to make some changes to get it to work for a USB-C Ethernet
> > > adapter but would like to know if the driver in the tree works for any
> > > older devices.
> >
> > thunderx# dmesg | egrep "(NetBSD 10|axen)"
> > [     1.000000] NetBSD 10.99.4 (GENERIC64) #138: Thu Apr 27 18:33:42 BST
> > 2023
> > [     4.320147] axen0 at uhub6 port 3
> > [     4.320147] axen0: ASIX Elec. Corp. (0x0b95) AX88179 (0x1790), rev
> > 3.00/1.00, addr 4
> > [     4.819877] axen0: AX88179
> > [     4.819877] rgephy0 at axen0 phy 3: RTL8211E 1000BASE-T media interface
> > [     4.889879] axen0: Ethernet address 00:13:3b:79:92:71
> > thunderx#
>
> What kind of USB port is that connected to?

  port 3 addr 3: super speed, power 124 mA, config 1, AX88179(0x1790),
ASIX Elec. Corp.(0x0b95), rev 1.00(0x0100), serial 0000133B799271


> The driver currently defaults to the smallest buffer size if the device
> is on a speed 5 (USB_SPEED_SUPER_PLUS) port.
>
> The diffs that I'm using are attached, can try moving the check in #if 0
> to after the check for 'pkt_len == 0'.
>
> It doesn't work for me at all without the change to the length argument
> to usbnet_enqueue().


Network is broken (can't ssh into host) and I get these

[  61.0568368] axen0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)
[  61.0768365] axen0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)
[  63.7768881] axen0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)
[  67.5569789] axen0: discarding oversize frame (len=1518)

I didn't investigate why

Nick