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Re: problem with vr0


From: James Frazer <jfrazer@xxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2005 04:06:51 -0600

Oooh, the dreaded vr driver, coming back to haunt us all again.

A couple years ago when I put FreeBSD on my VIA EPIA800 box the darned vr driver would always crap out with watchdog timeout errors, essentially killing the connection. I somehow managed to get all my important files on to the machine before this problem became a problem -- getting them off (no cdrom or floppy) became my worst nightmare.

The VIA mobo cd supposedly had an updated driver but it wouldn't compile -- I remember pulling out all my hair and searching newsgroups for days finding nothing of value. I was borderlining insanity by time I figured out how to fix it -- with a one liner -- just had to update a single depreciated function call.

I sent my fix back to VIA but they were hesitent to add it for 'legal' reasons. I later found out from one of the FreeBSD guys that the VIA driver was just a rip off of the FreeBSD vr driver in the first place (so much for their legal reasons).

Fortunately a later release of FreeBSD fixed most vr problems for me, although, I must admit it's always been a bit flakey.

Just thought this story was appropriate :-)



--James



walt wrote:

On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, George Georgalis wrote:



Just occurs to me. I've never heard of modules in BSD. Do they exist?
Is the vr0 driver something that can be compiled, added and removed
without rebooting?


Sure. Man {kldload, kldunload, kldstat}.

# locate if_vr.ko
/modules/if_vr.ko

I wish I knew enough to fix the code myself, but :o(





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