On Tue, Apr 01, 2008 at 08:13:19AM +0100, Stuart Fraser wrote:
> Hi,
> I'm trying to get a Via Velocity Gigabit Networking driver vge(4) to work at
> 1000baseTX on a Via EPIA SN18000 Motherboard.
>
> It will always Auto negotiation and back-off to 100MB Full duplex, which
> works
> Perfectly (so far). When I try to manually force the card 1000baseTX the
> interface
> status reports 'no carrier' and I can get not connectivity. I have tried
> Ubuntu live disk and it works seamlessly to 1GB, so I'm sure the
> cabling/switch etc is fine and the issue is with the driver.
>
> So I have tried 1000baseTX full and half duplex. I have tried to disable the
> hardware handoff using the mediaopt commands -rxcsum and -txcsum. Further I
> have tried to use the link0 operation as described in the man page but I
> get:
>
> nas# ifconfig vge0 mediaopt link0
> ifconfig: SIOCSIFMEDIA (media): Device not configured
>
> Further I have tried Release 7.0 and Stable 7 with the vge driver compiled
> In to the kernel also as an external module loaded through boot/loader.conf
> and lastly waiting until a full boot has completed and manually loading the
> if_vge module.
>
> The only thing I can see is that the chipset is actually a VT6130 and
> perhaps the driver needs 'tweaked' or there is some sysctl somewhere to poke
> it into life. As I say it works fine in 100MB mode and I can use 100M for a
> while but I'm planning on using this as a NAS so 1G would be preferred.
>
> Any help, suggestions, thoughts would be appreciated. Anyone got it working
> or tried?
> Should I report it as a bug?
>
Would you show me verbosed boot message?
Old VIA VT6120/VT6122 controllers used to ciphy(4) but newer PCIe
Velocity gigabit controllers, VT6130/VT6132, might use other
variants of the PHY.
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Regards,
Pyun YongHyeon
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