Re: nfe0 ping and dhclient problems

[Michael Neumann <mneumann@xxxxxxxx>]

Sepherosa Ziehau wrote:
> On 7/7/08, Michael Neumann <mneumann@ntecs.de> wrote:
> > > Try
> > > if_nfe.c rev 1.24
> > > if_nfereg.h rev 1.6
> > > if_nfevar.h rev 1.3
> >  No luck either! I can ping out, but not in, as before.
> >
> >  To rule out other possible problems, it works fine when booting from a
> >  FreeBSD 7.0 cdrom.
> >
> >
> > > Give me the output of 'ifconfig nfe0' and the dmesg, if possible.
> >  Here is pciconf, ifconfig and dmesg output:
> >
> >  $ pciconf -lv | grep -A4 '^nfe0'
> >  nfe0@pci0:10:0: class=0x020000 card=0x82b31043 chip=0x054c10de rev=0xa2
> > hdr=0x00
> >     vendor   = 'Nvidia Corp'
> >     device   = 'MCP67 Ethernet'
> >     class    = network
> >     subclass = ethernet
> >
> >  $ ifconfig nfe0
> >  nfe0: flags=8802<BROADCAST,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST> mtu 1500
> >         options=8<VLAN_MTU>
> >         ether 4f:ad:6d:c6:1f:00
> >         media: Ethernet autoselect
> >         status: active
> >
> >  $ dmesg | grep nfe0
> >  nfe0: <NVIDIA MCP67 Gigabit Ethernet> port 0xc880-0xc887 mem
> > 0xdfefe000-0xdfefe00f,0xdfefe400-0xdfefe4ff,0xdfefc000-0xdfefcfff
> > irq 10 at device 10.0 on pci0
> >  miibus1: <MII bus> on nfe0
> >  nfe0: MAC address: 4f:ad:6d:c6:1f:00

Hehe, I know what you mean :)

After the patch:

ether 00:1f:c6:6d:ad:4f

And it works like a charm! Thank you very much!

Regards,

  Michael

> Hehe, I see.  I wanted to change that code for a long time.  MCP61 and
> above has different MAC address order.  Linux also added some code to
> adjust TX_POLL, but it does not affect MCP61 and above.  Please test
> the attached patch.
>
> Best Regards,
> sephe